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Summarizing
Main Idea
Theme
Poems, Drama, and Prose
Academic vocabulary
100
SWBST stands for...
What is somebody wanted but so then?
100
what the text is all about
What is the main idea
100
define theme
What is the moral, message, or lesson of a story
100
often contains lines, stanzas, and rhyme
What is a poem
100
FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) are also called
What is a conjunction
200
the definition of summarize
What is retell the story in your own words
200
the key points that support the main idea
What is (supporting)details
200
is theme explicitly stated or implied
What is implied
200
contains dialogue and stage directions
What is a drama
200
describes a noun
What is an adjective
300
a little girl in need of shelter and food gets lost in the woods, then finds a house where she proceeds to break things and eat up all the food, then the owners of the house come home and deal with her
What is Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
300
this text feature helps you to determine the main idea of a text
What is the title or headings
300
What was the theme of The Power of W.O.W.
What is working as a community can get the job done (accept any answer that talks about teamwork/community)
300
usually has free-flowing speech, examples include magazines, books, essays, and letters
What is prose
300
you would use this type of language when addressing the President of the United States
What is formal
400
a group of students decide to help a failing bookmobile by hosting a successful car wash
What is The Power of W.O.W.
400
place(s) in the paragraph where you can find the main idea
What is first or last sentence (accept either answer)
400
What is the theme of the WIZ or the Wizard of Oz
What is believe in yourself
400
give an example of a drama read in class
What is (accept any of the Reader's Theater scripts read)
500
summarize the story We're In Business
What is answers will vary...accept the answer as long as it is told in the Somebody, Wanted, but, so, then format...
500
Come up with a main idea sentence for the following paragraph: Our school is a museum magnet school. We have a real museum here in the building. Here you will learn a lot and display your learning on museum night. There is no other school like Robert Churchwell Museum Magnet Elementary School.
What is answers will vary accept any that state Robert Churchwell Museum Magnet School and an attribute (like RCCMES is the best school in Nashville. RCCMES is the only Museum Elementary magnet school in Nashville, etc...)
500
How is theme different from main idea?
What is theme is the author wants you to learn from the story, main idea is what the story is mostly about.
500
Give an example of a piece of prose we have read in class
What is accept the title of anything read in class
500
going beyond the author's words to understand what is not said in the text
What is making an inference