4R2:Central Message/Theme/Summarizing
What is theme?
What is the lesson that the author wants to teach you throughout a story.
What is setting?
What is where the story takes place, or the different locations a story takes place.
What is Point of View?
What is the position from which a story is told.
What does it mean to make an inference?
What is a conclusion reached by evidence and background knowledge.
What is a domain specific word?
What are words that match a specific subject. Example: Matter, chemistry,gravity are all domain specific words. They belong to a science article.
What is main idea?
What is the overall point of a text, what the text is mostly about.
We use __________ to describe a character or setting in a text.
What are character traits
What were the specific points of view we learned about in 4th grade?
What is first person and third person.
What strategy did we learn to help us make an inference?
What is evidence from the text + what we already know about the text(background knowledge).
What are strategies we have learned to help us understand the meaning of an unknown word? (2)
What are synonyms and antonyms, root words, prefix/suffix, and context clues of a text.
What strategy did we learn to help us summarize a text?
What is somebody, wanted, but, so, then
We can track a characters _______,_______, and _______ to help us describe a character.
What are thoughts, feelings, actions, and/or dialogue.
What is the difference between first and third person point of view?
What is first person is when the story is told from the viewpoint of one of the characters in the story. Third person is when the narrator is NOT a part of the story.
What signposts have we learned to use while reading a fiction text? (3)
AHA Moment, contrasts and contradictions, tough questions, memory moment, words of the wiser, and an again and again.
What are bold and italicized words?
What are darker printed words, and words that are slanted in a text.
What strategies did we learn to help us find the main idea of a text?(4 boxes)
What is repeated words and phrases,what is topic sentences, what is text feature addition, what is headings
What strategy did we learn to describe the important events in a text? A _________ __________.
What is story mountain
What is perspective?
What is the attitude or opinion of someone.
What signposts have we learned to help us understand an informational text? (2)
Why are there bold and italicized words in a text?
What is the author wants to show importance or stress a specific concept in a text.
What is the one THEME Ms. D'Amico always says needs to be explained if you decide to use it in a response (a common third grade theme).
What is don't judge a book by it's cover!
After we use an adjective/trait to describe a character what do we have to follow up with?
What is TEXT EVIDENCE that SUPPORTS our response.
How does the perspective of specific characters in a text effect the overall text?
What is the opinions/viewpoints of the characters can change the events or outcomes of a text.
After we make an inference, what must we have in our response?
What is evidence from the text that supports the inference we made.
What is hyperbole?
What is an exaggerated statement or phrase that is not meant to be taken literally.