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21 Cards in this Set
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Genre
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Type of category of literature. Mystery stories are my favorite reading genre
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Types of Genres:
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Romance, mystery, sport, mythology, history, horror
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Fiction –
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Fake; made up; not real. Harry Potter is a Fiction novel
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Non-fiction –
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N not fake; true; real. A biography is a non-fiction novel
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Steps in Identifying a
“ Just Right” book |
Find
Read Ask Choose |
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Find
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Look at Covers.
Look at blurb, pictures, print, space, number of pages Read chapter tittles Look for familiar authors/ genres |
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Read
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Use five finger rule:
Read three pages, count the words you don’t know, if there are more than five the book is not for you |
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Ask
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Do I understand the story
Is this book interesting Is my reading smooth Do I have to read it all |
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Choose
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If yes, check out and read book
Need Help ask library media specialist Teacher Friend |
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How to write a title
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( quotes or underlining)
Quotes for short story Stories you underline the titles. |
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Protagonist
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Main Character
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Third Person Narrator
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outsider
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Narrator
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First person point of view -
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Similes and Metaphors are poetic devices
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True or False
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Simile
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a comparison that uses words “like” or “as”
I am quiet as a mouse. |
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Metaphor
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a comparison between two different things that does not use the words like or as. In sunlight his hair is a flame.
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Writing in Sequence
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Events are written in the order that they happen. Directions must be written in sequence
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Plot
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The sequence of events that make up the story.
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Transition words
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words that signal the reader that one step is over and the next will start.
Now, then, first, after, finally. |
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Conflict
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problems
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Inferences
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Clues to what may happen or ifnorantionof the story
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