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Week of 2/3/14 – 2/7/14. Unit 4 Week 1. Essential Question: What kind of stories do we tell? Why do we tell them? Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
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Week of 2/3/14 – 2/7/14 Unit 4 Week 1 Essential Question: What kind of stories do we tell? Why do we tell them? Comprehension Strategy: Visualize When you visualize a story , you pay close attention to any descriptive words and what the author says to create pictures in your mind of the characters, setting, and actions. Comprehension Skill: Point of View Point of view is the way the story is told Vocabulary Strategy: Synonyms and Antonyms Synonyms are words with the same or similar meaning. Antonyms are words with opposite meanings. Genre : Tall Tale Has larger than life characters, including a hero Involves humuorus exaggerations Describes events that couldn’t happen in real life