Reading Informational
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What is author's purpose?
Why the author wrote the passage.
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What are the literary elements?
Conflict- struggle between two characters
Theme- message, lesson, moral
Characters- main character and background; protagonist and antagonist
Setting- where story takes place
What is morphology?
The study of words.
The author's purpose is what the story is mainly about. True or false. Explain.
False.
Where can you find the main idea?
First paragraph in the first or last sentence. If not look in the middle.
What is central idea?
What the passage is mostly about
What is theme? Is it found in literary text or informational tex?
The message, lesson, or moral. Literary text.
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
A figure of speech in which two things are compared directly by using “like” or “as” while metaphor does the same thing without using "like" or "as".
Literal language means exactly what it says. True or False.
True.
Text structure builds up the text while text features organize the text. True or false.
True.
This structure is used to show how things are similar or different.
Compare and contrast.
What are the elements of poetry?
Rhyme, rhythm, stanzas, lines, figurative language, imagery
The news story was based on a letter that was a fabrication. Now the reporter who wrote the story is in big trouble. Will anyone believe him again?
A fabrication is___________.
a.made of cloth b.full of long words c.funny d.fake
d.fake
What is figurative language? Name them.
Figurative language is when you say what you don't really mean.
Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and idiom
What are the types of text structures?
Chronological Order
Cause & Effect
Problem/Solution
Description
Compare and Contrast
What is the glossary page? What is the index?
The index is found on the front and tells you where to find pages. The glossary is found in the back and tells definitions of words.
What are the different point of views an author can tell us a story?
1st person- the person n the story is telling the story (I, me, my)
2nd person- the person in the story is addressing the reader (you)
3rd person-somebody not in the story is telling the story
omniscient and limited
An expression used by a group of people that has a different meaning to what the words say.
Idiom
What is perspective?
How you see things.
Jasper and Judy live in a big apartment house. They live on the tenth floor. Last week Jasper walked up all nine flights of stairs. He was very tired when he got home. Cause: Jasper walked up nine flights of stairs.
What was the effect? a. Judy was tired when she got home. b. He lives on the tenth floor. c. He was tired when he got home.
c. He was tired when he got home.
Which of the following is an example of evidence an author might use to support their claim?
a. a quote from a reliable source
b. a personal opinion from the author
c. a summary of the text
d. the title of the article
a. a quote from a reliable source
Create and explain a plot diagram.
What is paraphrasing? What is summarizing?
Paraphrasing is putting things in your own words. Summarizing is taking the main idea and the most important parts of the text and putting it together.
What is the difference in the structure of poetry and prose?
Poetry has lines and stanzas while prose has paragraphs and sentences.
A story about a family trying to stick together and survive through the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s. What is the author's purpose?
Entertainment