Non-fiction vocab
This type of text feature is when the author uses a picture from a camera to show the reader something.
a photo
What is a seizure?
When some has a seizure their brain misfires and the lose control of their body.
Avid has a reading strategy called, Marking the Text, What is the first thing you do when marking the text?
Number the paragraphs.
True or False. The setting of the story, Leap of Faith took place in a train station in New York.
False, it was in a subway station in New York on 137st. and Broadway.
What does PEAL stand for?
Point, Evidence, Analysis, Link
This type of text feature is when the author wants to show the reader a picture that represents numbers.
a graph
If you are toppling off something, what are you doing?
falling
Another reading strategy we are learning about in the class is called the 5W's+how. What are the 5W's+how?
Who
What
Where
When
Why
And How
Cameron Holloper had a _________________that caused him to topple off the dock of the subway and end of on the tracks.
seizure
Would you use PEAL for narrative or informal writing?
What is the difference between a heading and a title?
The title is the name of the book, magazine, article, a heading states the main idea of a chunk of text such as a chapter, a page or a paragraph.
What does it mean to extract?
To take out or to remove.
According to the Avid reading strategy, what are the three things you circle in a paragraph?
important words.
This article was a non-fiction informative text or a true fictional story.
Non-fiction informative text
In a PEAL paragraph you must have at least 1, 2, 3 or 5 pieces of evidence to support your point.
3
Why would a author chose to use a diagram in an image?
So the reader can see the working parts of the image.
If something misfires, it?
Doesn't work or misses causing a problem in the way something runs.
Would you use the 5W+how on on-line texts or paper texts?
The 5w+how would be better on on-line texts.
Wesley Autry pulled Cameron Holloper into a ____________________ under the subway to save their lives.
trough
True or False
The analysis is your opinion, your chance to add a thought, idea or analysis to your paragraph.
True
What are the first three things that a reader would chose to read when reading non-fiction text?
Title, subtitle, images, headings, subheadings, bold print.
What is a trough?
When using the Avid strategy, Marking the Text, the reader underlines the _________________________.
Main idea of the paragraph.
What were 3 of the 7 gifts that New Yorker's gave Wesley for saving Cameron's life.
Tickets to Disney world, concerts, baseball games, scholarships for his daughters, a computer, a check for $10,000, Interviews on talk shows.
How many sentences should a strong PEAL paragraph contain?