McGraw Wonders Unit 3 Week 1
Essential Question: What can learning about different cultures teach us?
Reading Strategy Focus for the Week:
Comprehension Strategy -
Summarize
Theme
Realistic Fiction
Comprehension Strategy -
Summarize
- A summary should focus on details in the text and should not include the students' opnions
- If you would not be able to understand the plot of a story without a particular idea, detail, or event, it is important and should be included in the summary.
Theme
- The theme is often not directly stated.
- It is developed throughout the story and is supported by many different details
- To help find the theme try to think about what the characters do and say and what happens to them. What is the message the author is trying to portray.
Realistic Fiction
- realistic fiction tells about characters, setting, and events that are like people, places, and events in real life
- details in realistic fiction reflect life as it is in modern times
- realistic fiction contains descriptive details that help the reader experience the story through the senses.
- Realistic fiction also includes dialogue that sounds the way real people speak.