3. Outcome and Theme Comprehension Strategies 100 300 100 200 100 300 200 300 400 500 400 500 400 100 300 200 500 400 100 300 200 500 400 100 300 200 500 400 200 Setting Characters Plot Vocabulary

4. The setting of most of the action of Common Sense: An Anansi Tale.

5. What is the jungle? $100

6. Where Anansi traveled to find common sense.

7. What is the whole world? $200

8. Where Anansi searched for a place to hide his calabash full of common sense.

9. What is the jungle? $300

10. The place Anansi tried to hide his calabash full of common sense.

11. What is the tallest tree in the jungle? $400

12. When this story begins.

13. What is one bright sunny day? $500

14. The main character in Common Sense: An Anansi Tale

15. Who is Anansi? $100

16. The main character is this kind of creature.

17. What is a spider? $200

18. The only character in the story not named in the title.

19. Who is a small boy? $300

20. The character who can be described as a tricky fellow.

21. Who is Anansi? $400

22. The only character in the story who seemed to have common sense.

23. Who is the small boy? $500

24. In a story, this is what happens; it has a beginning, middle, and end.

25. What is the plot? $100

26. In many plots, this must be solved by the main character.

27. What is a problem? $200

28. In Common Sense: An Anansi Tale, its the problem.

29. What is Anansis desire to own all the common sense in the world? $300

30. Anansi gathers common sense and puts it in a calabash, for example.

31. What is an important event? $400

32. The three sections of a plot.

33. What are the beginning, middle, and end? $500

34. Another name for the resolution of the main problem of a story.

35. What is the outcome? $100

36. The authors big idea or message (sometimes a moral).

37. What is the theme of a story? $200

38. In Common Sense: An Anansi Tale, its the outcome.

39. What is the failure of Anansis plan, or when the common sense is scattered over the earth? $300

40. In The Three Little Pigs, its Planning ahead and hard work pay off.

41. What is the theme? $400

42. The main message or theme of Common Sense: An Anansi Tale

43. What is Its foolish to think you can own it all? $500

44. Text that tells a story. It may be the invention of an author or the retelling of a tale from oral tradition.

45. What is narrative text? $100

46. Finding and making meaning from print and oral information.

47. What is comprehension? $200

48. This is an approach to text-based instruction that is designed to facilitate building understanding of text ideas.

49. What is Question the Author? $300

50. Activating prior knowledge before reading a selection; picture walk, word walk, vocabulary, predictions.

51. What are pre-reading activities? $400

52. Text that explains, informs, persuades; factual information.

53. What is expository text? $500

54. Its initials are DRTA and it includes Predict, Read with a Purpose, and Prove.

55. What is Directed Reading and Thinking Activity? $100

56. Right There, Think and Search, On My Own, and Author & Me

57. What are the four types of Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)? $200

58. A graphic representation of the story grammar of a narrative.

59. What is a story map? $300

60. Three of the story grammar elements.

61. What are... title, setting, characters, problem, important events, outcome, or theme? $400

62. One of the tools that can be used to help students understand story grammar elements.

63. What is story map (or character weave, or other acceptable responses)? $500