Main Idea
What is the main idea of a story?
The point/purpose of the story, what it is about.
If you COMPARE things, you are looking for ways that they are ____________.
Similar.
What is a sequence?
An ordered list.
Name a word that rhymes with CAKE.
BAKE, RAKE, LAKE, MAKE.
True or False: INFORMATIONAL texts tell you about things that are not real.
False.
What does the topic sentence of a paragraph tell you?
The main idea - What the paragraph is going to be about.
If you CONTRAST things, you are looking for ways that they are _______.
Different.
When reading a story, what do we sequence?
The important events that happened in the story.
True or False: SAID rhymes with HEAD.
True.
Where can you find the Table of Contents in a book?
What do supporting details tell about?
Give more information about the main idea.
What is the name of the diagram we use to help us compare and contrast 2 things?
Venn Diagram.
What are some words that we use when we sequence?
First, next, then, last.
True or False: ALL poems have to rhyme.
False.
What does the Table of Contents tell you?
How do you find the main when reading NON FICTION?
Look at the topic sentence.
What goes in the middle section of the diagram?
Similarities.
Finish this sequence. First I woke up and got out of bed. Next, I ____________.
Got dressed, brushed my teeth, ate breakfast...
What is ALLITERATION?
When words start with the same letter/sound.
EX: Tim the tiny turtle.
Where can you find the Glossary in a book?
The end.
How do you find the main idea when reading FICTION?
See what all of the supporting details are trying to tell you.
Pretend you are comparing apples and bananas. What would you put in each section?
Left = Apple (red, round)
Middle = Both (fruit)
Right = Banana (yellow)
True or False: Details should be included in your sequence.
False.
True or False: Rhyming words in poems are usually at the beginning of sentences.
False. They are usually at the end.
EX: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
What does the Glossary tell you?
Definitions of new words.