Point of View
What is character's point of view?
How the character thinks and feels about the events in the story.
What do the words 'compare' and 'contrast' mean? What do you do when you are comparing and contrasting two things?
Compare = how things are alike
Contrast = how things are different
When you compare and contrast two things, you tell how they are alike and different.
The lesson, message, or moral of the story. What the characters learn from their actions.
What are some examples of sentence/context clues that can help us identify unfamiliar words/phrases in a sentence?
Examples, definitions, synonyms, or antonyms.
This type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing is another thing.
A metaphor!
In a story, Mia gives her lunch to a new student who forgot theirs.
What character trait does this show?
Mia is nice, kind, and generous.
Text A says, “Salmon live in rivers.”
Text B says, “Sharks live in oceans.”
What is one way these animals are alike?
Both salmon and sharks live in the water.
Both are water/aquatic animals.
Read the situation:
Ben keeps practicing his multiplication facts even when they are hard. By the end of the year, he knows them all.
What could be the theme of this story?
Practice makes perfect or hardwork pays off.
Read the sentence:
“The puppy was famished. He gobbled up his food in seconds.”
What does famished mean?
The puppy was very hungry.
In the sentence, “The classroom was a zoo,” what two things are being compared?
A classroom and a zoo.
In a story about moving to a new school, the narrator says,
“I was terrified to walk into my new classroom.”
What is the narrator’s point of view about starting at the new school?
The narrator feels scared or nervous about starting the new school.
Text A explains that pandas eat bamboo.
Text B explains that bears eat fish and berries.
What is one way these animals are different?
pandas eat bamboo, but other bears eat fish and berries.
In a story, a girl lies to her friend and loses that friendship. Later, she tells the truth and earns back trust.
What is a likely theme?
Telling the truth builds trust.
Read the sentence:
“Lena felt nervous before her speech. Her hands were shaking, and her heart was pounding.”
Which words in the sentence help you understand what nervous means?
"hands were shaking" and "heart was pounding"
A student writes: “The test was a piece of cake.”
Is this a metaphor? Explain why or why not.
Yes because it compares the test to a piece of cake to show it was easy.
A character refuses to practice for the big game. On the day of the game, the team loses.
How did the character’s actions affect the events in the story?
The character's choice not to practice affected the team and they lost.
Two articles are about recycling.
One focuses on how recycling helps the Earth.
The other explains how recycling works at a factory.
What is the main difference between the two texts?
One text explains why recycling is important, and the other explains how recycling works.
A character refuses help because he thinks he can do everything alone. After failing, he learns to accept help from others.
What evidence from this story helps you figure out the theme?
He failed when he worked alone, but succeeded when he accepted help.
“The desert is arid, or very dry, and gets very little rain.”
What type of context clue is being used?
A definition clue.
In the metaphor, “My backpack is a mountain,” what does the author mean with his comparison?
The backpack is very heavy or big!
In a story, one character thinks a thunderstorm is exciting, while another character is hiding under the bed because they are afraid.
How are the characters’ points of view different?
One character feels excited about the storm, while the other feels scared.
You read two nonfiction texts about hurricanes.
Both explain how hurricanes form, but one text includes survivor stories and the other only includes scientific facts.
What is one similarity and one difference between the two texts?
Both texts explain how hurricanes form (compare/similarity), but one includes personal stories while the other only includes scienfici information (contrasting/difference).
A student says the theme of a story is “Dogs.”
Why is this NOT a correct theme, and what would make it better?
A theme must be a lesson or message, not just the topic or main idea.
A better answer would be something like: "Taking care of pets teachers responsibility."
Read the sentence:
“Unlike her outgoing sister, Maya was timid and preferred to stay quiet.”
What does timid mean, and what kind of context clue helped you figure it out?
Timid means shy and this is a synonym/antonym context clue.
Read this sentence: “Her smile was sunshine.”
What does this metaphor tell us about her smile?