Narrative Elements
Text Features
Reading Strategies
Vocabulary
Grab Bag
100
The people or animals in the narrative
What are the characters?
100
Helps us predict what the text is about, make connections, and helps us begin to activate our prior knowledge.
What is the title?
100
Looking over the text to get a general idea about the content or structure
What is previewing?
100
The most important words in the sentence
What are key words?
100
A Quote
What is the exact words of the author?
200
The 2 parts to the setting
What is time and place?
200
Describes a photo or picture to make the text clearer.
What is a caption?
200
Making mental (in your head) images or pictures from the text
What is visualizing?
200
Why the author is writing the text.
What is the author's purpose?
200
The two main types of text
What is narrative and explanatory (expository, informative) text?
300
The events in the narrative.
What is the plot?
300
Helps us focus on the next topic we will read.
What is a subheading?
300
Using words surrounding an unknown word to determine the meaning of that word
What are context clues?
300
Support from the text; proof for your answer; you can put your finger on it
What is the text evidence?
300
Three parts of speech of key words.
What are nouns, action verbs, and adjectives?
400
The problem and solution in the narrative.
What is the conflict and resolution?
400
The best text feature to state the main idea of the text. (Not the title.)
What is the subtitle?
400
Reread, slow down, think or read aloud, read ahead, sound out, ask
What is the Fix-Up Strategy?
400
Who is telling the narrative or story
What is point of view?
400
The three QAR type questions
What is right there, think and search, and inference (on my own)?
500
The author's hidden message in the narrative.
What is theme?
500
Helps us visualize how something works in the text or the parts of an object in the text.
What is a diagram?
500
Figuring out something that isn't directly stated (an inference) at the end of the text.
What is drawing conclusions?
500
Text evidence written in your own words but including key words from the author
What is a paraphrase?
500
The 4 parts to using CUCC
What is circling the verbs, underlining the key words, counting the circles, checking to see if you followed all of the directions?
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