benchmark review

Benchmark Review

Predictions: What Do you Need?

Use your prior

knowledge

Pick out story clues to predict what will happen

Prediction-developing

idea of what you think

will happen next in the

story

Reading Skill: Making Predictions

Make a prediction

Read ahead and keep track of it

Revise your prediction if

it was incorrect

When making a prediction we use details from the story to change or support our prediction after reading.

Literary Skill: Point of View

ExpositionIntroduction of setting, characters and situations

ConflictThe story’s central problem.

Rising ActionEvents that increase tensionOccurs after the exposition

ClimaxThe high point of the story, when the story’s

outcome becomes clear and changes in the characters become apparent.

Falling ActionEvents that follow the climaxThey DECREASE the tension

ResolutionThe final outcome

Point of ViewFirst Person:

Narrator takes part in the story….Refers to himself as “I, my” and tells the reader what he or she feels, thinks or sees. “I could see Mike walking toward me in the tall grass.”

Third Person:The narrator does not take place in the action. As

an outside observer, the narrator relates information the narrator may not know. “The boy was afraid his mother would be mad that he

forgot his lunch.”

Fiction vs. NonfictionFiction

Tells about imaginary people,

animals, places and events. One or more elements

is made up.

Ex. Short stories and folktales

Nonfiction

Writing that tells about real people,

animals, places and events.

Ex. Biographies and articles

Prefixes and SuffixesPrefix

Be- “to make” Ex. Bewildered- to make wildered or upset

Pre- “before” Ex. Prepay- to pay before getting a service. Ex. A drivethrough

Suffix -ation

“the condition of being” Ex. Starvation: the act of being starved

-able “Having qualities of” Ex. Charitable – a person having the qualities of showing charity

Grammar:Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns

Proper Nouns: Names a particular person, place or thing Capitalized

Nancy, Miss. SchwartzCommon Nouns

Names a group of people, places, or things Boy, girl

Singular and Plural NounsSingular : ONE person, place or thing

ex,. Book, ball, hatPlural: refer to more than one

Girls, boys, classmates

Possessive Nouns

Website Features:URL: Web addressHome page: opening page of a websiteLinks: connections to other pages or sitesIcons: images or small drawings that often

highlight linksMenu: List of links

New ArticlesHeadline: text that provides an overview of

contentByline: line that shoes who wrote the articleDateline: information that tells where and

when the story takes placeCaptions: information about pictures or

visuals.