Enhancing Reading Skills Through Predictions and Literary Elements
This comprehensive guide explores crucial reading skills, focusing on making predictions and understanding literary elements. Learn how to utilize story details to enhance your predictions after reading texts. It delves into essential components like plot structure, including exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Additionally, it examines point of view, contrasting first-person and third-person narratives, and clarifies grammar concepts like common vs. proper nouns. Understand prefixes, suffixes, and website features that enhance digital literacy.
Enhancing Reading Skills Through Predictions and Literary Elements
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Reading Skill: Making Predictions When making a prediction we use details from the story to change or support our prediction after reading.
Exposition • Introduction of setting, characters and situations
Conflict • The story’s central problem.
Rising Action • Events that increase tension • Occurs after the exposition
Climax • The high point of the story, when the story’s outcome becomes clear and changes in the characters become apparent.
Falling Action • Events that follow the climax • They DECREASE the tension
Resolution • The final outcome
Point of View • First 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.”
Prefixes and Suffixes • Prefix • 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. Schwartz • Common Nouns • Names a group of people, places, or things • Boy, girl
Singular and Plural Nouns • Singular : ONE person, place or thing • ex,. Book, ball, hat • Plural: refer to more than one • Girls, boys, classmates
Website Features: • URL: Web address • Home page: opening page of a website • Links: connections to other pages or sites • Icons: images or small drawings that often highlight links • Menu: List of links
New Articles • Headline: text that provides an overview of content • Byline: line that shoes who wrote the article • Dateline: information that tells where and when the story takes place • Captions: information about pictures or visuals.
