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1. Academic Vocabulary
Fiction
Vocabulary for Story Building
(includes lesson plans)

2. I can…
…discover, define and assimilate
the academic vocabulary for writing
a great fiction story.

3. Elements of a Story
What are the basic parts to
a great story?

4. Take out a sheet of
Cornell Note Paper
TOPIC:
Story Academic Vocabulary
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
What are the academic vocabulary words
for a story, and how can I use them when
writing a fiction story?

5. Story Map Vocabulary
• Exposition (Basic Situation)
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling action
• Resolution

7. More Story Academic Vocabulary
Copy these in your notes leaving room for definitions and examples
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Foreshadowing
Predictions
Inferences
Conflict
Flashback
Protagonist
Antagonist
• Figurative Language
• Imagery
• First Person Point of
View (P.O.V.)
• Third Person Limited
P.O.V.
• Third Person
Omniscient P.O.V.

8. DIRECTIONS:
Using your Literature Books, dictionaries
or any resources available to you, look up
each of these words.
Then to show your understanding, you
must put the definitions in your own
words and tell what each one means.
Finally, we will be presenting these to the
class to compare and come up with our
“class” definitions.

9. It is now
Student
Work Time

10. Presentations
Students will share out
their definitions, decide on
classroom definitions and
have one student write these
in their best handwriting
to make copies to distribute
to the whole class.

11. Optional Quick Write
You may have noticed the picture
in the background. The full
color photo is on the next slide.

12. What is her story?

13. Optional Quick Write Instructions
Using the story map from slide 6, write a
story about this photo. Is this photo from the
beginning of your story? Is it during the
resolution? Is it part of the rising action or
the climax? Where did she come from? What
is she doing there? Why is she all alone?
What is she waiting for? Why is she waiting
for it? What’s in her bags? What’s she like?
What is the setting?
You decide. This is your story.

14. Optional Share Out
Present your story to the class
We will develop speaking and
listening norms
for students to follow
(Meets Common Core State Standards
for Speaking and Listening)

15. Meets the following
Common Core State Standards
Language 4, 5, & 6
Writing 3, 4, 5 & 9
Speaking and Listening 1 & 5

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