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Benchmark Review. Predictions: What Do you Need?. Reading Skill: Making Predictions. When making a prediction we use details from the story to change or support our prediction after reading. Literary Skill: Point of View. Exposition. Introduction of setting, characters and situations. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Benchmark Review
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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
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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.
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Literary Skill: Point of View
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ExpositionIntroduction of setting, characters and situations
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ConflictThe story’s central problem.
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Rising ActionEvents that increase tensionOccurs after the exposition
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ClimaxThe high point of the story, when the story’s
outcome becomes clear and changes in the characters become apparent.
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Falling ActionEvents that follow the climaxThey DECREASE the tension
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ResolutionThe final outcome
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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Singular and Plural NounsSingular : ONE person, place or thing
ex,. Book, ball, hatPlural: refer to more than one
Girls, boys, classmates
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Possessive Nouns
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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
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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.