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Genre
Comprehension Strategies
Skills
George Washington Carver
Audubon
100
The true story of a person's life being written by that person.
What is an Autobiography?
100
Going back to the text and reading it again.
What is Reread?
100
Finding similarities and differences of characters
What is Compare and Contrast?
100
Moses Carver
Who is George Washington Carver's Mother?
100
Watch birds
What is the thing that Audubon loved to do the most?
200
Set in the past, describes a hero or heroine's quest, or tasks they must accomplish, and often includes foreshadowing and imagery.
What is Folktale?
200
Reading something such as a paragraph and putting it into your own words.
What is Summarizing?
200
When and event happens as a direct cause of another action.
What is Cause and Effect?
200
Eleven Years old
What is the age that George Washington Carver began attending a school for black children?
200
His attic
Where is the place that John James liked to work on his drawings?
300
Takes place in a made-up or magical setting.
What is a Fairy Tale?
300
Using details to predict events which may happen later in the story.
What is Making Predictions?
300
Putting a story together in the order the events occurred.
What is Sequencing?
300
1894
What is the year that Carver finished college?
300
"Fee-bee! Fee-bee!"
What is the sound that John's favorite bird made?
400
Tells the true story of a person's life.
What is a Biography?
400
When other words in the sentence help to make sense of unfamiliar words.
What is Context Clues?
400
Making assumptions about a story or text based on a selection that you have just read.
What is making inferences?
400
Peanuts and Sweet Potatoes
What are the crops Carver urged farmers to plant to correct problems with the soil caused by cotton farming?
400
To see if the birds returned each season
Why did Audubon band birds?
500
Tells a true story about an event.
What is Narrative Nonfiction?
500
Identifying characters, setting, events, problem, and resolution.
What is Story Structure?
500
The big idea or message about life that the author wants to share with readers.
What is Theme?
500
This is where Carver was buried.
What is Tuskegee Institute
500
Will the same birds return to their same nests each season?
What is the question that haunted John James Audubon throughout his life fueling many experiments?