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"Future Awaits"
"Future Awaits"
What are the literary elements in a text?
Characters, setting, events, and plot (problem and solution).
What is the difference between theme and central idea?
Theme is the lesson of the story. Central idea is what the whole text is MOSTLY about.
What is Text Structure?
The way that an author organizes the information in a text
Read like a detective means...
Preview the questions before reading the text.
Creative, bossy, lazy, and caring are some adjectives used to describe a _______________.
character's trait.
What is the main message, lesson or moral of the text?
Theme
What is Imagery?
Words the author uses to appeal to our five senses and helps create an image/picture in the reader's mind.
What does it mean to make an inference?
to use the clues and your background knowledge to make a conclusion
Annotating the text helps me...
Better understand what I am reading
Valentina carried the delicate china to the table very carefully. What does delicate mean?
fragile, easily breakable or damaged
In a drama (play):
I can read the ____________ to know what each character/actor is doing.
I can read the ____________ to know what each character is saying.
stage direction; dialogue
"finding friends for fun Fridays featuring food for fish" is an example of what kind of figurative language?
Alliteration
What are some examples of text features?
Heading, Subheading, Captions, Photographs, Maps, Graphs, title, sub-title, illustration
Fill in the blank:
To be a success, _________.
Do not guess!
Dylan goes to the Air and Space Museum every chance he gets because he is fascinated by planes. What does fascinated mean?
interested in
Complete the following analogy
story : poem :: paragraph : _______
(a story is to poem as paragraph is to _____)
stanza
How the author thinks and feels about the topic.
Author's perspective
If the story is written by someone IN the story, what is the point of view?
First person POV
To prove that I have the right answer I must...
Find the evidence in the text to prove I have chosen the best answer
Text features provide information; therefore, I can use text features to _______________ and __________________. (identify 2 ways)
answer questions and determine the central idea.
"I came home early, as I am feeling a bit under the weather"
This sentence is an example of which type of figurative language?
Idiom
An expression that means something different from the meaning of its individual words.
Which sentence is an example of hyperbole?
A. My feet are very sore.
B. I have more homework than you.
C. The apple is as red as a rose.
D. Her mother told her a million times.
D. Her mother told her a million times.
How can you figure out the central idea?
Tell what the WHOLE passage is about.
Process of Elimination means...
Cross out the answer that do not make sense.
What is it called when you write the events of a story in the order that they happen?
Sequence