Plot diagram
A sequence of events in a story
What is the plot?
The text is all about this.
What is the main idea?
The theme of Unit 2.
What are Observations?
It gives you factual information about a topic or explains something.
It has a main idea and supporting details.
It has text features.
What are informational texts?
This text structure contains a conflict and the way it was resolved.
What is the problem and solution?
The highest point of a story
What is the climax?
The central idea of a story
What is the theme?
The Unit 2 Essential Question.
How do we learn through our observations?
An element of informational text that tells what the text is all about.
What is the main idea?
This text structure contains an event that happens and shows the consequence of it.
What is the cause and effect?
The people or animals in a story?
Who are the characters?
To see the text in your mind
What is to visualize?
Ways we learn through our observations.
What are using the scientific method.
Research
Experts (team)
Using technical tools such as microscopes, binoculars, rovers, and transmitters.
Maps, diagrams, pictures, captions, labels, and bold words.
What are common text features?
This text structure explains what happened in a person's life from birth to their demise.
What is sequence, chronological order, or time order?
Events that lead to the development of conflict and the climax?
What is rising action?
Try this strategy first when you read something but don't understand what you've read.
What is re-read?
A person who writes poetry
Who is a poet?
The way an author organizes information within a text.
What is text structure?
This text structure identifies how two or more things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
How the story ends
What is the resolution, conclusion, or denouement?
To write a general idea about something that you've read about.
What is to summarize?
What is a purpose for observing?
To correct problems.
To find out how living things survive and grow.
For protection
To look for patterns and habits of a species.
First, next, then, finally,
because of, as a result.
What are signal or transition words?
This text structure identifies characteristics of people or things.
What is description?