Summarizing
Good readers summarize or retell a story in their own words.
To summarize:
*Retell the story elements (characters, setting, plot, problem, solution) in your own words.
*Don't include every event and detail in the story
Using Sticky Note Thinking:
Good Readers THINK About What They Read
The best part of reading is letting your mind wander and bring the story to life! Good readers do lots of things as they read: they ask questions, make connections, make predictions, make inferences, learn new words, and visualize or make pictures in their minds.
Readers can use sticky notes to mark their thinking, so they can remember all of their great thoughts!
Readers can use sticky notes to mark their thinking, so they can remember all of their great thoughts!
Procedural Text
Poetry: What Makes a Poem a Poem?
Click here to check out the funny poetry playground of famous children's author Kenn Nesbitt. I promise you will find a poem that interests you!
Can you spot any elements of poetry in the song "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons?
A song is a type of poem! What do you notice about the way the song is written? How is it different from other forms of writing you have read?
Using Diagrams and Images in Non-Fiction Texts
Author's Purpose for Informational Texts
Digging Further Into Main Idea
How can I identify the main idea of a passage with more than one paragraph?
Using Text Evidence
Author's Purpose
Good Readers think about why an author wrote a story or text. What was their purpose for writing it?
Shades of Meaning
Words can have similar meanings, but different "shades" of meaning. Some words may be stronger or weaker than others. Click HERE to play the Shades of Meaning Game
What is the Central Message or Theme of a Story?
How do Characters Respond to Events or Challenges in a Story?
Good readers understand a character's response to events and challenges in a story by thinking about their thoughts, actions, feelings, and sayings throughout a story.
How do Characters Change Throughout a Story?
Characters grow or change as a result of an event, problem, or lesson learned in a story.
How can we describe Grace's character at the beginning, middle, and end of the story? What caused Grace to change at the end of the story?
Readers Use Images to Understand the Text
Dictionary and Thesaurus
Text Features
Main Idea and Supporting Details
Practice identifying main idea
Asking and Answering Questions
Retelling a Story
Characters
Plot (Beginning, Middle, and End)
Beginning, Middle and End of Chapter 1 The Stories Julian Tells
Story Elements
Folktales
Jack and the Beanstalk
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Little Pigs
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
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The Gingerbread Man
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Cinderella
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Snow White
How Can I Use Context Clues to Figure Out Unknown Words?
Let's see if we can figure out the meaning of the unknown words in the read aloud, Baloney (Henry P). by John Scieszka