Something true, told like a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
What is narrative nonfiction
100
Putting something in your own words.
What is paraphrasing
100
Writer's version of the truth that can be different or the way a person views a situation
What is point of view
200
Specific information you include in a summary
What are supporting details
200
The author usually presents events in...
What is chronological/sequential order
200
readers have to figure things out on their own by....
What is making inferences or drawing conclusions
200
the reason an author writes a text
What is author's purpose
300
It must be stated in the summary
What is Main Idea
300
True or False? Narrative nonfiction text does not have a plot?
What is FALSE
300
Looking at the changes, choices, challenges, and actions help us with...
What is growing our ideas about characters
300
how the author reveals about the character and personality
What is character traits
400
It does not need to be specifically stated or included in your summary
What is the topic
400
Nonfiction texts all have characters. True or False?
What is FALSE
400
When you learn a lesson from the story
What is theme, what the story is really about, or big idea
400
Captures the most important parts of the text in the reader's own words
Hint: Somebody... wanted...but..so...then
What is summary
500
Ways to summarize nonfiction texts
delete trivia, include important details, delete repeated information state the important idea just once, create a topic sentence to start your summary
500
What is the author's purpose in a narrative nonfiction text vs. a nonfiction text?
What is narrative nonfiction wants us to learn a life lesson or idea from the character/subject whereas a nonfiction text teaches us about a topic.
500
Give an example of implicit and explicit idea that we would find in the text.
What is
implicit-theory, theme/big idea, thoughts/feelings, ideas
explicit-text evidence, actions, setting
500
Person who tells the story or gives an account of what happened