Point of View
What does the author think is most important?
What is a central idea?
What is a cause?
What is a reason for an action or condition?
I am so tired I could sleep for a year.
what is hyperbole?
Sophie loves to read. She always has a book in her hand. She visits the library every day after school. Her favorite type of stories are mysteries. She has already read twenty mystery books already this year.
a. Sophie loves to read.
b. Sophie went to the library.
c. Sophie read mystery books.
What is A. Sophie loves to read.
The author's purpose for ads, commercials, editorials, movie critics' reviews, political speeches.
What is the author's purpose, to persuade?
What's the difference between a first and third person point of view?
What is first-person uses I or we, second-person uses you, and third-person will use he, she, it or they?
What is an effect?
What is a change that results when something is done or happens?
The tree swayed and sang to the birds chirping.
What is personification?
Jen loves horses. She has pictures of horses all around her room. Her homework folder has a huge horse on it. She has ten t-shirts with horses on it.
What is Jen loves horses?
The author's purpose for novels, jokes, poems, gossip columns, comic books.
What is the author's purpose to entertain?
How does the narrator's point of view affect the events in the narrative?
What is influencing our understanding and interpretation of the text
Lia is very nice to me, so she is my best friend!
what is effect?
Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
There are signs about the dance all around the school. Every day, there are announcements about buying tickets to the dance. Every student must buy a ticker in order to go. The students are getting excited for the upcoming school dance.
The main idea is the school dance is coming up.
The author's purpose for front-page newspaper articles, legal documents, reference materials, museum brochures.
What is the author's purpose to inform?
The narrator is not a character in the story, yet he or she can only reveal what one character is thinking and feeling.
What is third person limited?
What is cause?
It is as hot as the Sahara Desert.
What is a simile?
Theo is moving. He is packing all of his belongings into boxes. His father is carrying the boxes into a moving van. The van will bring the boxes to the new house.
The main idea is Theo is moving into a new house.
New York is bordered by Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Inform
The narrator can reveal what many characters are thinking, feeling, and doing.
What is Third Person Omniscient?
It was super cold in my house, so dad turned the heater on.
What is effect?
Life is a roller coaster which every one has to go through.
What is a metaphor?
Brielle loves going to the beach with her family on the weekends. She loves to ride the waves and catch some sun. She also goes to the beach with her friends and play volleyball.
The main idea is Brielle loves going to the beach.
Students should eat breakfast everyday because it fuels the brain and body, which leads to better concentration, memory, and test scores.
Persuade