Outcome and Theme Comprehension Strategies Setting Characters Plot Vocabulary
The setting of most of the action of Common Sense: An Anansi Tale.
What is the jungle? $100
Where Anansi traveled to find common sense.
What is the whole world? $200
Where Anansi searched for a place to hide his calabash full of common sense.
What is the jungle? $300
The place Anansi tried to hide his calabash full of common sense.
What is the tallest tree in the jungle? $400
When this story begins.
What is one bright sunny day? $500
The main character in Common Sense: An Anansi Tale
Who is Anansi? $100
The main character is this kind of creature.
What is a spider? $200
The only character in the story not named in the title.
Who is a small boy? $300
The character who can be described as a tricky fellow.
Who is Anansi? $400
The only character in the story who seemed to have common sense.
Who is the small boy? $500
In a story, this is what happens; it has a beginning, middle, and end.
What is the plot? $100
In many plots, this must be solved by the main character.
What is a problem? $200
In Common Sense: An Anansi Tale, its the problem.
What is Anansis desire to own all the common sense in the world? $300
Anansi gathers common sense and puts it in a calabash, for example.
What is an important event? $400
The three sections of a plot.
What are the beginning, middle, and end? $500
Another name for the resolution of the main problem of a story.
What is the outcome? $100
The authors big idea or message (sometimes a moral).
What is the theme of a story? $200
In Common Sense: An Anansi Tale, its the outcome.
What is the failure of Anansis plan, or when the common sense is scattered over the earth? $300
In The Three Little Pigs, its Planning ahead and hard work pay off.
What is the theme? $400
The main message or theme of Common Sense: An Anansi Tale
What is Its foolish to think you can own it all? $500
Text that tells a story. It may be the invention of an author or the retelling of a tale from oral tradition.
What is narrative text? $100
Finding and making meaning from print and oral information.
What is comprehension? $200
This is an approach to text-based instruction that is designed to facilitate building understanding of text ideas.
What is Question the Author? $300
Activating prior knowledge before reading a selection; picture walk, word walk, vocabulary, predictions.
What are pre-reading activities? $400
Text that explains, informs, persuades; factual information.
What is expository text? $500
Its initials are DRTA and it includes Predict, Read with a Purpose, and Prove.
What is Directed Reading and Thinking Activity? $100
Right There, Think and Search, On My Own, and Author & Me
What are the four types of Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)? $200
A graphic representation of the story grammar of a narrative.
What is a story map? $300
Three of the story grammar elements.
What are... title, setting, characters, problem, important events, outcome, or theme? $400
One of the tools that can be used to help students understand story grammar elements.
What is story map (or character weave, or other acceptable responses)? $500