Newspaper
Narrative Elements
Mythology
Vocabulary
Reading Strategies
100
What every good news article has in the first paragraph.
What are the 5 W's?
100
The animals or people in the story
What are the characters?
100
Two Olympians (Gods on Mt. Olympus)
What is Zeus, Hera, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Ares, Athena, Poseidon, Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, Demeter, Dionysus, or Hestia?
100
A one sentence summary of the text
What is the main idea?
100
What you think will happen next in the text
What is prediction?
200
Two newspaper terms or text features and their definitions.
What is headline, subheadline, byline, credit, cutline, key, etc.
200
The 2 parts to the setting.
What is the time and place?
200
One monster
What is Nemean lion, Cerberus, Ladon, Chimera, Sphinx, Hydra, Scylla, etc.
200
The reason the author is writing the text
What is the author's purpose?
200
Asking questions before, during, and after reading.
What is questioning?
300
An international news gathering group who report the news and send it to a newspaper.
What is a wire service?
300
The problem and solution in the story?
What is the conflict and resolution?
300
The 3 categories of myths
What is creation, hero, and morality?
300
A category of literature
What is a genre?
300
The three types of connections
What is text to text, text to self, and text to world?
400
Three purposes for reading the newspaper.
What is to inform, entertain, and persuade?
400
The events in the story.
What is the plot?
400
Two heroes and a description
Who is Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, Jason, Odysseus, Achilles?
400
The first person and the third person point of views
What is the main character and the narrator?
400
Creating images in your mind while reading
What is visualizing?
500
Five sections of the newspaper
What is front page, sports, metro, outlook, car pages, classified, etc.?
500
The hidden message the author is trying to send to the reader in the story
What is the theme?
500
One mortal who learned a lesson and the consequence and lesson learned.
Who is Midas, Icarus, Daedulus, Arachne, Pandora, Echo?
500
Nonfiction text and Fiction text
What is expository and narrative?
500
Context Clues
What is using words surrounding a difficult vocabulary word to predict its meaning?
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