Main Idea and Summarizing
Mrs. Smith likes to paint. She likes the pretty colors. She draws a picture first, then uses her paints. She gives her pictures to her son.
What is the Main Idea?
Mrs. Smith paints pictures.
This text feature explains what the illustration/photo is. It tells you what you see in the picture.
Caption
Determine the genre:
based on a person or event from history, but has made up components as well.
Historical Fiction
The problem in the story is called the ______?
Conflict
This means to purposefully create images in your head to help you understand what you're reading. It's like a movie playing inside your head.
Visualizing
What is the Main Idea of a passage?
What the passage is mostly about
Located in the back of the book, this feature gives the definitions of important vocabulary words.
Glossary
Stories that come from the author's imagination are what type of genre?
Fiction
The turning point of the story is called the ____
Climax
One reason we visualize is to...
Get a better understanding of the text
You should determine the main idea by combining the supporting details...true or false
True
Important words are usually ____ in a text so they stand out.
Bolded
Timothy did not like coming to school. He did not have a lot of friends, and he struggled in most subjects. His teacher, Mr. Peters, had lunch with Timothy and talked about his concerns and fears. From that day on Timothy, realized that school was not so bad. Mr. Peters really made a difference.
One person can make a difference.
A series of events in a story (the beginning, middle and end) is called the
Plot
Joe and Kate were choosing the players for their teams. It was Kate's turn to choose, and only Jason was left. Kate said, "Jason".
We can infer that Jason ____________
Is not a very good player for this sport.
What is the definition of a summary?
What the passage is mostly about.
True/False: We should ALWAYS look at the text features.
True
Which of these is not related to theme?
A. A life lesson learned
B. the moral of the story
C. How a character feels
D. The message of the story
C. How a character is feeling
The 5 elements of a story (think of the Flocab song)
Plot, Character, Conflict, Theme, Setting
Max was baking cookies, but then he got an important phone call. When he returned a few minutes later, the kitchen was filled with smoke.
What can you infer?
Max forgot about the cookies, so they burned.
A summary includes what two components?
Main ideas and important details of the text.
Where do you find the table of contents?
At the beginning of the book
The theme of a text is its'
Message or lesson
What story structure explains the people, animal or objects of the story that help tell it to the reader?
Characters
When making an inference, the most important thing is...
Being able to prove your inference using evidence from the text.