The BIGS

What the text is mostly about

• Theme

• Plot

• Central Idea

• Evidence

The lesson the text is trying to teach you

• Theme

• Plot

• Central Idea

• Evidence

The conversation between characters

• Theme

• Plot

• Dialogue

• Evidence

Educated guess based on evidence

• climax

• inference

• point of view

• support

Help build the story or add to the growth of the story

• point of view

• contribute to the development

• plot

• figurative language

how the story is told

• author

• narrator

• point of view

• significance

to suggest but not say directly

• support

• imply

• point of view

• aspects

The events of the story

• setting

• conflict

• plot

• resolution

The problem of the story

• setting

• conflict

• plot

• resolution

how problem of the story is solved

• setting

• conflict

• plot

• resolution