Unit 6 The Big Idea How do we decide what’s important?

Unit 6 Week 5 Essential Question:  What Makes You Laugh?

This week’s texts (available on Wonders’ website): “The Camping Trip”,  “Bubble Gum” and “Ollie’s Escape“

Strategy: Author’s Point of View – an author has thoughts about the topic they are writing about. These thoughts are the author’s point of view.

• To identify the author’s point of view, we should look for details that show what the author thinks.
• We can decide what these details have in common. This will help us figure out the author’s point of view.
• Then we can distinguish what we think about the topic with what the author thinks.

Literary Elements: Rhythm and Rhyme – poets use rhythm and rhyme to make a poem interesting to listen to and fun to read.

• A poem’s rhythm is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line. We can clap our hands as we read to follow the poem’s rhythm.
• Words rhyme when their endings sound the same, such as pouring and roaring.

Genre: Narrative Poetry – the following are key characteristics of narrative poetry:

• Narrative poetry tells a story. Narrative poems can read like a story.
• Narrative poetry may be written in stanzas, or groups of lines.

Vocabulary Strategy: Idiom – a special kind of nonliteral phrase that means something different from the literal meaning of the words in it.

• An idiom is a phrase, or group of words, that means something different from the literal meaning of each word in it.
• We should look for phrases where the literal meaning seems out of place in the text to identify idioms.
• We should use context clues in the surrounding text to help us distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of the idiom

Grammar: Prepositions –A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in a sentence:

• The dog is under the couch.

Common prepositions include in, on, at, over, under, to, from, for, with, by, of, into, before, after, and during:

• We went to the store.

 

Reading Questions To Ask At Home

 

Vocabulary

• What is the meaning of _________ (word)?  How do you know?

• What is the prefix/suffix for _______ (word)?

• What figurative language (i.e. simile, metaphor, personification, idiom) did the author use?  What does it mean?

• What is a multiple meaning of ______ (word)?

• What would be a synonym/antonym of this of ______ (word)?

 Comprehension: Fiction Text

• What happened in the section you read?

• From whose point of view is the story written (first person, second person, third person)?  How did  you know?

• What problem/conflict is the character experiencing?

• How is the character feeling now? Why?

• What is the setting of the story (time and place)?  How did you know it changed?

• What do you think is likely to happen next?  Why do you think this?

• What was the solution to the problem?

• What is the author’s purpose (inform, entertain, persuade, explain)?  How do you know?

• What was the sequence of events?  What happened before ________?

•What happened after _________?

• What caused this event to occur?

• How did the character change throughout the story?

• What is the theme or author’s message?

• Compare and contrast this character/problem to another character/problem from another story.

• How would you summarize this event?  Use sequence words in your summary.

• What question do you have for the author?

 Comprehension: Nonfiction/Informational Text

• What was the most important idea?

• What details support the main idea?

• How did the author organize the whole text (sequence, cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast)?  How do you know?

• How does this text feature (i.e. map, diagram, graph, sidebar, photograph, caption) add to your understanding of the topic?

• How is this text the same or different from another nonfiction text you’ve read?

• What caused this event to occur?

• What problem/conflict was described?

• What was the solution to the problem?

• What happened before ________?  What happened after _________?

• What conclusion can you draw about the topic?

• What evidence supports the author’s perspective?

• What is the theme?

• What is the author’s purpose (inform, entertain, persuade, explain)?  How do you know?

• How would you summarize this section of the text? Use sequence words in your summary.

• What question do you have for the author?