Theme/ Central Idea
Theme is written as a ________, not a ______
What is a Sentence, not a word
To examine the details of a text
Analyze
Comparison using like or as
What is Simile
What is the introduction?
When taking a test like the EOG or NC Check In, good readers do what first?
What is read the questions?
What is the theme for a story about a group of friends that work together to host a community festival.
What is Teamwork makes things possible.
a struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict?
What is Personification
The most exciting part of the text where the conflict is solved.
What is the Climax?
A brief account of a text’s central or main points, themes, or ideas that is free of bias, prejudice, and personal opinion and does not incorporate outside information
Objective Summary
Stories with characters that show bravery when met with a difficult situation or fearful event.
What is Courage can help you overcome.
The main character
What is protagonist?
[1]Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s laws wrong it
learned to walk without having feet. [
5] Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
“The Rose That Grew from Concrete” from The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur.
What is the theme of this poem?
What is Work hard even when it seems impossible?
What is the purpose of the following passage? Sandy is the absolute best candidate for student body president! She is honest, friendly and dedicated to making our school a better place. This is YOUR chance to make a positive change! VOTE SANDY IN 2013!
What is To Persuade?
A brief statement of the main points of a larger work or text; the act of providing such a statement or account
What is Summarize?
Theme is _____________
What is the message of the text? What the author wants the character to learn.
Explaining what is alike and what is different.
What is compare and contrast?
Alliteration
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore
What are Words that have a the same beginning sound?
The chain of related events that tell us what happened in a text. We use a diagram to show the parts.
What is plot?
The big idea of the text in an Informational Text
What is the Central Idea?
One winter, a monkey found a snake stiff and frozen. The monkey felt sorry for the snake and so he picked the snake up and held it to his chest to try to warm it. The snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and because of its instincts, bit the monkey with all its might. What is the theme?
A. Even though you have good intentions, others may not
B. Don't hold snakes close to your chest.
C. Snakes are dangerous.
A - Even though you have good intentions, others may not.
features that help you understand an informational text including graphs, charts, maps, timelines, and table of contents
What is text features?
Poetry uses ____________ and _____________ where prose uses sentences and paragraphs.
What is lines and stanzas?
The parts of the plot diagram
What is Introduction, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution?
We summarize the questions before reading the text.
What is so we know what the quotations are asking so we know what to look for in our reading.