Reading Class

Reading Skills:

Text Structure- how a text is set up/beginning, middle, end events, main characters, setting, problem, solution

Narrative-story

Free Verse- doesn't follow any specific "rules"

Haiku-three line poem with the first line having 5 syllables, the second having 7 syllables and the third having 5

Theme- message in a text

Imagery- what you imagine while reading

Unit 4 Lesson 5  Spelling Words:

pounce    placed    dice    cents    price    space    mice    office    wage    age    gyms    giant    changes    message    pages    you    road    peace    giraffe    peaceful 

Vocabulary Words:

adventurous- willing to risk danger for excitement

courageous- brave

extremely- very

wierd- strange or mysterious

free verse- poem that does not rhyme or follow a rhythmic pattern

narrative poem  a peom that tells a story

repetition- using the same word several times in a poem

rhyme-words that end with the same sound