Places
Town square
What is a phrase/word for the center of town?
A famous leader of the Roman Empire
Who is Julius Caesar?
What is a way of getting the news by asking questions, listening and speaking with other people?
Educated Chinese people who wrote the news out by hand.
What are newspapers?
A clue that asks readers to use what they already know.
What is general knowledge prompt?
The Roman Empire and China.
What are two places where there were newspapers before the invention of the printing press?
The town crier.
Who is a person who shouted out the news for everyone in town to hear?
Reading aloud
What is reading and speaking the words you are reading at the same time so others can hear?
Brief one-page reports.
What were the first printed newspapers?
A clue that tells what an unfamiliar word/phrase means.
What is a definition?
Roman baths and government buildings
What are places where you might see a newspapers painted on the walls?
Illiterate
What is a person who can't read or write?
The printing press.
What made it possible to make many copies of a brief newspaper very quickly?
The New York Sun.
What is newspaper very popular with immigrants in the US in the mid 1800s? ... a newspaper that helped many new immigrants learn to read English? ... a newspaper that focused on entertaining stories about famous and ordinary people?
A clue that will give information about something that is opposite to the unfamiliar word/phrase.
What is a contrast clue?
The first newspaper there started in 1690.
What is Boston?
Immigrants
Who are many people who came to the USA in the mid 1800s?
Fake or false news.
What is news that may be interesting and entertaining but is invented, not accurate and not true.
Traveled by ship and and took 12 days to reach England from the USA because a telegraph cable was not functioning.
What is the news that Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated?
Examples of things from the category named by the unfamiliar word/phrase.
What is exemplification or what are examples?
Krakatoa Island in Indonesia
Where did a huge volcano erupt in 1883?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the US president who was assassinated at the end of the civil war in 1865?
The telegraph and cables.
What made it possible to send news almost in an instance?
The first news from a different country that was published on the same day that it happened.
What is the eruption of the volcano on the island of Krakatoa in Indonesia in August 1883?
Things an author can include in a text to help the reader understand unfamiliar words/phrases.
What are context clues?