Fiction

Plot Characters Setting Theme

plot diagram
exposition
rising action
climax
falling action
resolution

conflict

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 Reading Strategies
Predict
readers make predictions based on how stories tend to go
readers confirm or revise predictions as they read

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 Talk at Your Table

What is plot?
What is conflict ?
Where would conflict fall on the plot diagram ?

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 Think about a time you got
advice from someone.

Did you accept their advice?

Why or why not?

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 Reader's Tip
Readers make predictions based
on their experiences.

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 Dragon Dragon
page 461

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 Talk at Your Table Identify the conflict and the climax.

What quality leads the two elder

brothers to reject their father's advice?

What quality leads the youngest

brother to accept this advice?

PICK ONE!
1. Explain what the story teaches about
the value of following advice.

2. Do you think the father's advice really

"worked"? Explain.
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