Main Idea
What is a main idea?
What the text is mainly about.
Will the author tell me the theme of a story in the text?
No. NEVERRRR!
What are the 5 types of text structures?
Compare and contrast
description
cause and effect
problem and solution
chronological/sequence
What is one skill I can use to make sure I get the right answer?
Eliminate answer choices to get to the 80-100% correct answer.
True or False?
A poem has stage directions and a prose has lines and stanzas.
False
"Which of these answer choices best supports your answer to Part A"
use the elevator method.
What is a theme of a story?
A lesson or moral of a story.
If I am writing a biography about myself, what text structure would I use?
Chronological/Sequence
How do you figure out a word you don't know the meaning of?
Answer may vary
Name 3 types of visual text features.
Diagrams, photographs, graphs, timelines, etc.
What is the Main idea of "Blue Corn Maiden"?
Answer will vary.
Answers will vary
Which two types of text structures are the most similar and how can you tell them apart?
cause and effect & problem and solution
Cause and effect shows the outcome of something while problem and solution has a "fix" or "answer" to a problem/conflict
what can I do so I don't forget the multiple texts I read?
Character list and Summary
How do you make an Inference?
What the text says + Your schema (what you already know) = inference !
How can I find the main idea of a text?
Ask yourself what is the text mostly about?
Look at titles, headings, pictures
Look at first and last sentences.
What is the difference between main idea and theme?
Main idea is what the story is mostly about.
Theme is moral or lesson of the story.
"When I do not feed the baby, the baby cries. When I do feed the baby, the baby stops crying."
This is an example of which kind of text structure?
Cause and effect.
What is one trick I can do if I am not understanding a difficult text?
What text feature tells me what a paragraph is going to be about?
Headings or subheadings
Tell me the main idea of "The Grinch" then give me the theme of "The Grinch"
Answer will vary
What was the theme of the story of Medusa?
Being greedy is ugly
"The students were coming late to school so Mrs. Mariney started going to their houses and waking them up. This led to the students showing up on time to school and now there are fewer kids being tardy."
This is an example of which kind of text structure?
What is the best way to answer a questions that has a multiple choice events table?
Cover up the answer choices and read the events first. Then mark them in order on the side.
1. "The girl did not have a membership but they still let her go in, while Mila had to stay outside and wait."
2. "She did NOT have a membership! I don't understand why I can not join the gym club but SHE can!"
Which one of these is 1st person point of view? Which one is 3rd person point of view?
#1 is 3rd person point of view
#2 is 1st person point of view