The Nitty Gritty
When the reader identifies the biggest, most important idea about a topic and the pieces of information that further explain that idea.
What is finding the main idea and key details?
The three major types of literature.
What are prose, drama and poetry?
Photograph/Caption
What is show the reader what the author is talking about and tell the reader what they see in the picture?
A text describes how two or more things are similar and different.
What is compare and contrast?
our Uncle, todd, told us about a rain forest in africa. (4)
What is Our uncle, Todd, told us about a rain forest in Africa.
When describing characters in order to understand the text better, readers must look at these as clues
What are a character's thoughts, words and actions?
Tell actors how to act or speak or what should happen on stage.
What are stage directions?
Glossary
What is give definitions to important words found in the text?
The story is told from a narrator who is a character in the story who experiences what happens.
What is first person point of view?
your mom said she is hungry said dad. (5)
What is "Your mom said she is hungry," said Dad.
A reader retells a story using only the most important details which may include characters, setting, plot, problem and solution.
What is give a summary of a story?
Includes rhyming words that help describe events as well as ideas grouped as stanzas.
What is a poem?
Map
What is show where a location is that the author speaks about in the text?
This text structure may detail the events leading up to the first man landing on the moon and the events that followed.
What is chronological/sequence?
Lovely, blissfully, quietly, sadly
What are Adverbs?
Use what you know (schema) along with details from a text to figure out what the author does not say directly.
What is to make an inference?
Each line in a poem.
What is a verse?
Italics
What is show that a word is important?
A text written with this structure may identify how pollution has increased dramatically over the years and the steps humans can take to decrease the effects of pollution.
What is problem/solution?
An expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of the actual words. Ex. I'm in the doghouse.
What is an idiom?
3 steps readers take to identify the theme of a story
What is identify:
1. Who the character is
2.what their problem is
3. What they learn
4. what the author wants the reader to learn about life
Where you will find dialogue between characters.
What is prose or plays.
Diagram
What is explains information or how something works in a visual way?
An account of an event written by someone who learned about it at the library.
What is a second hand account?
A word can be made up of 3 parts as in unlovable.
What are prefix, root word, suffix?