McGraw Wonders Unit 3 Week 2
Essential Question: How can learning about nature be useful?
Reading Strategy Focus for the Week:
Comprehension Strategy -
Summarize
Theme
Fantasy
Comprehension Strategy -
Summarize
- To determine important details, students should ask themselves, "Does this detail help me understand what is happening?"
- Important details explain who the characters are, what the setting is, and what significant events are unfolding.
- Include the beginning, middle, and end.
Theme
- The theme is usually not stated directly.
- 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.
- The theme of the story is often closely connected to how the characters solve problems and what they learn as a result.
Fantasy
- The setting of a fantasy is made-up or imagined.
- A fantasy tells about characters that could not exist and events that could not happen in real life.
- A fantasy my include sensory language and figurative language, such as personification.