McGraw Wonders Unit 4 Week 1
Essential Question: What kinds of stories do we tell? Why do we tell them?
Reading Strategy Focus for the Week:
Comprehension Strategy -
Visualize
Point of View
Tall Tale
Comprehension Strategy -
Visualize
- Try notice any descriptive words the author uses.
- Try to use what you already know to help your visualize and think about where a character actually is
- Using both the description and your prior knowledge, close your eyes, and try to form a picture of what the author is describing.
Point of View
- If the narrator is the character in the story and participates in the events being described, he or she tells the story from a first person point of view.
- A first person point of view refers to himself or herself using I or me.
- If the narrator is not a character in the story then he or she tells the story from the third person point of view.
Tall Tale
- A tall tale has larger-than-life characters including a hero.
- The hero is the main character in the story and more clever than the other characters.
- A tall tale often contains events that could not possibly happen in real life, such as a man running faster than a speeding train.
- A tall tale often contains a hyperbole or exaggeration, to the make the story more humorous or entertaining. The characters in a tall tale frequently walk taller, run faster and laugh louder than anyone encountered in real life.