TALENT SHOW
SNOOTY
STRATEGIES
SPACE FOOD
WHO REALLY LIKES TO WRITE, ANYWAY
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You can tell this a lyrical poem because it...
Has a rhyming pattern
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The word healed in paragraph 6 means
recovered
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How can you tell fiction from non-fiction?
Non - fiction - is real (talks about real things and people)
fiction - is made up
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In this article, what does the word rarely mean?
seldom
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How do we know that the speaker is frustrated about her assignment? (2 things)
She says her brain is mush and she can't think of anything to write.
200
What is he best of the word act as used in the poem?
act \ăkt\ noun
1.a law
2. a document
3. a section of a play
4. a performance
4. a performance
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Snooty is what type of text? How do you know?
Non-Fiction, It is about a real life animal and includes real pictures of the manatee.
200
What words can you look up in a dictionary?
Any words that you do not know the meaning of
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Space food is a great feat of science, even if it doesn't taste as good as a home-cooked meal on Earth.
Is the above sentence a fact or opinion?
How do you know?
Opinion - It can not be proven to be "great".
200
Based on paragraph 2, you can infer that the speaker thinks that Sally
talks too much.
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The poet uses the first stanza of the poem to -
set the scene for the rest of the poem
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Cause - Snooty was born in captivity.
Effect -
Draw a cause and effect chart to show the effect.
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What should your hashtags include?
main idea and a supporting detail
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One of the ways space food is made healthier is by
adjusting the salt and iron levels.
300
Give 3 details that help us infer that Jack is not a good student?
1. He still didn't have a pencil.
2. He once told the teacher he used invisible ink.
3. He didn't find a piece of paper to start writing until the time was up.
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Based on the last stanza of the poem, the reader can conclude that the speaker...
really enjoyed the watching the talent show.
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What happened after Snooty moved to the Parker Manatee Aquarium?
Snooty got tank mates.
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What should you do with underlined/bold words?
Box/circle them and write what you think they mean using the context clues.
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The author most likely wrote this article to...
inform the reader about space food.
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What stories did the speaker want to write that had already been written?
Godzilla and Hansel and Gretel
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Based on the information in the poem, the reader can infer that the talent show takes place at _______.
What evidence backs up this inference?
a school.
Stanza 1 line 2 - Each student has a special talent.
500
The reader can conclude that Snooty is large because ...
What evidence supports that?
he eats 80 lbs a day.
Evidence - P. 9: The kids marvel at his huge size and gentle ways.
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Name 3 things you should look for on a text feature walk.
headings, pictures, charts/graphs, captions, title, subsections, diagrams, tables, bold words
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The pictures on the first page of the article best help the reader-
understand what the first kinds of space food looked like.
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How has the speaker changed from the beginning of the story to the end?
At the beginning of the story she was frustrated and didn't want to write, but at the end she was excited about the story she was creating.