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8. Determine the meanings and pronunciations of unknown words by using dictionaries, thesauruses, glossaries, technology and textual features, such as definitional footnotes or sidebars.

Links:

• Play the game "Space Station of the 21st Century"

• The Free Online Dictionary

• Dictionary.com

• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

• Rhyming Dictionary

• How to Use a Dictionary

1. Establish and adjust purposes for reading, including to find out, to understand, to interpret, to enjoy and to solve problems.

2. Predict and support predictions with specific references to textual examples that may be in widely separated sections of text.

3. Make critical comparisons across texts.

4. Summarize the information in texts, recognizing that there may be several important ideas rather than just one main idea and identifying details that support each.

5. Make inferences based on implicit information in texts, and provide justifications for those inferences.

6. Select, create, and use graphic organizers to interpret textual information.

7. Answer literal, inferential, and evaluative questions to demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate print texts and electronic and visual media.

Links:

• BBC: Inference Skills in Reading

• BBC: Personal Responses to the Text

• BBC: Summarizing Text

• Graphic Organizers

• Inference Battleship

• Inference Skills in Reading

• Into the Book

• Making Inferences about Characters

• Making an Inference

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Self-Monitoring Strategies

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Independent Reading

Information, Technical, and Persuasive Text

1. Use text features, such as chapter titles, headings, and subheadings, parts of books including the index and table of contents and online tools (search engines) to locate information.

2. Identify, distinguish between, and explain examples of cause and effect in informational text.

3. Compare important details about a topic, using different sources of information, including books, magazines, newspapers, and online resources.

4. Summarize the main ideas and supporting details.

5. Analyze information found in maps, charts, tables, graphs, and diagrams.

6. Clarify steps in a set of instructions or procedures for proper sequencing and completeness and revise if necessary.

7. Analyze the difference between fact and opinion.

8. Distinguish relevant from irrelevant information in a text and identify possible points of confusion for the reader.

9. Identify and understand an author's purpose for writing, including to explain, to entertain, or to inform.

Links:

• Know the Parts of a Book

• Cause and Effect in Informational Text

• BBC: Types of Text

• Game: Using Reference Sources

• What are the different Reference Sources?

• Practice identifying the Reference Source

• Know About the Newspaper Practice and Games

• Main Idea Fun Practice

• Main Idea

• Finding Main Idea in Paragraphs

• Understanding Supporting Details in Informational Text

• Practicing Supporting Details in Informational Text

• Charts and Graphs

• Create a Graph

• Have you ever wondered why we use graphs?

• Author's Purpose

• Identifying the Author's Purpose

• Practice Author's Purpose

• Game: Author's Puprpose

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1. Explain how a character's thoughts, words, and actions reveal his or her motivations.

2. Explain the influence of setting on the selection.

3. identify the main incidents of a plot sequence and explain how they influence future action.

4. Identify the speaker and explain how point of view affects the text.

5. Summarize stated and implied themes.

6. Describe the defining characteristics of literary forms and genres, including poetry, drama, chapter books, biographies, fiction, and non-fiction.

7. Interpret how an author's choice of words appeals to the senses and suggests mood.

8. Identify and explain the use of figurative language in literary works, including idioms, similes, hyperboles, metaphors, and personification.

Links:

• EDSITEment Literary Glossary

• Learning about Characters in a Story

• What Setting Tells Us

• What is the Plot?

• What Goes Into Plot?

• Types of Point of View

• Understanding an Author's Point of View

• What is Theme?

• Finding the Theme

• What are the different Genres?

• Practice Identifying the Different Genres

• Literary Genres

• Simile Crossword

• List of Similes

• Hyperboles

• Hyperbole

• What is Hyperbole?

• Similes and Metaphors

• Metaphors

• Funbrain Idioms

• ESL Idiom Page

• English-Zone.com: Idioms

• Idioms

• Idioms and Axioms Currently Used in America

• Self-Study: Idiom Quiz

• The Dog Hause: Idioms

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Kidsconnect Figurative Language

• Mrs. Dowling's Literature Terms

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