Nonfiction
This is what a section or selection is mostly about. We prove this with supporting details.
Central idea or Main idea
What kind of poem expresses emotions or feelings and sometimes sounds like a song?
Lyrical.
This genre may have characters, setting, problem, solution and dialogue.
Fiction
You should always look at and read these and ask yourself why the author included them.
Print / text / graphic features
These describe the photographs and contain important information that may not be anywhere else in the text.
captions
What should you do if you are not focused on your story or questions and you are zoning out during your reading?
You should take a quick mental break in order to focus again.
How do you prove that an answer is not the correct answer?
Put an x over or mark out the part that makes the answer wrong. (Don't just put an x over the answer choice.)
A nonfiction summary will contain all the _____ of the selection, leaving out unimportant details.
main ideas
These features help the reader know what a specific section of nonfiction text will be about. We make a jot beside them for the main idea of the section.
Headings
Should you be thinking about the genre of your story before, during and after you read? Why?
Yes! You will look for different things in different genres.