A Child Called "It"
The genre of non-fiction of "A Child Called "It."
What is a memoir?
This is a list at the beginning of the books that shows the names of chapters and page numbers.
What is the Table of Contents?
A true story about somebody's life written by somebody else.
What is a biography?
A reader makes pictures in their head to imagine what they are reading.
What is visualizing or making mind movies?
The instrument that Mr. Tuttle plays.
What is the piano?
Two part question:
The grade Dave is currently in.
The grade Dave should be in.
What is second grade and third grade?
The words by a picture or a diagram that explain what is in the picture or diagram.
What is a caption?
A true story written about somebody's life written by that person in first person.
What is an autobiography?
When a reader makes an educated guess about what will happen next using evidence from the text.
What is making a prediction?
The projected highest temperature today outside.
What is 34 degrees?
The author (first and last name) of "A Child Called "It."
Who is Dave Pelzer?
An alphabetical list of names and topics along with page numbers that help readers locate specific information in a book.
What is an index?
The types of words you would see in a book written by somebody in third person.
Examples - He, She, They, etc.
Expert Readers ask these before, during and after reading text.
What are questions?
The one sport Mr. Tuttle does not like.
What is hockey?
A poison that Dave's mother makes him ingest.
What is ammonia?
A list of bold or italic words and their definitions from the text. It is usually found at the end of the text.
What is a glossary?
The three reasons an author writes something.
What is to persuade, inform or entertain?
When something you read reminds you of something that you already know.
What are connections?
The total number of school days in the 2018-2019 school year.
What is 174 school days?
Dave's mother's name
Who is Roerva?
Text that is placed alongside a main article, usually in a box, that gives more information about the main article.
What is a side bar?
Write a sentence that is an opinion.
(Answers will vary)
A shortened retelling of the main ideas in a longer text.
What is a summary?
Name one of two colleges that Mr. Tuttle went to.
What is the University of Minnnesota, Duluth (UMD) or Hamline University?