Students will be able to
- Explain the characteristics of realistic fiction
- Identify the narrator of the story (first or third person)
- Describe the setting (season or time of day, buildings; past present or future; rural urban or suburbs)
- Identify character traits and provide evidence from the text (what the character feels, does, says or how other characters react to them)
- Explain how a character changes from the beginning to the end of a story
- define the problem and solution
- summarize the plot
- Identify each part of a plot diagram
- Explain the parts of a plot diagram (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)
- Locate the main idea
- Show sequence of events
Identify cause and effect
- identify theme or big message or lesson
- provide evidence from the story when answering questions
Students will be able to answer questions about these topics in the following formats:
- graphic organizers
- multiple choice questions
- short responses (open-ended questions)
- long responses (paragraphs)