Central Idea
What are 3 strategies you can use to find central idea?
Rereading the first and last paragraph, taking a text feature walk, and finding repeated words
What is authors perspective?
What the author thinks about something
What does synonym mean?
What does antonym mean?
Synonym- Similar
Antonym- Opposite
Name 4 story elements
Characters, setting, conflict, resolution
Name 2 text features that can give you more information about this article?
Title
Photograph
What is the central idea of the article?
Hearing dogs are trained to help people
What is authors claim?
The opinion the author is trying to prove
" When the dog hears a sound, it alerts its owner by touching the owner with its nose or paw."
What does the word ALERT mean as used in the sentence?
To warn the owner, To tell the owner
Which story element shows how the conflict in the story is solved?
Resolution
Which of these would be the BEST heading for paragraph 2?
A) How to buy a hearing dog
B) What do hearing dogs do?
C) Famous hearing dogs in history
B) What do hearing dogs do
Which 3 sentences or details prove the central idea of the article?
1) "A hearing dog is trained to listen for certain sounds."
"The dogs and owners go through lots of training."
"They also do their jobs outside and in public places."
What is the authors perspective about hearing dogs?
That hearing dogs work hard to help other
What would be a synonym for the word TRAINED as it is used in the text below?
"Mitzi is trained to alert her to them."
Taught or instructed
Mitzi and Leah
What information does the photograph give us?
The photograph tells us what it looks like when a dog alerts their owner