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Benchmark Review

Benchmark Review. Predictions: What Do you Need?. Reading Skill: Making Predictions. When making a prediction we use details from the story to change or support our prediction after reading. Literary Skill: Point of View. Exposition. Introduction of setting, characters and situations.

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Benchmark Review

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  1. Benchmark Review

  2. Predictions: What Do you Need?

  3. Reading Skill: Making Predictions When making a prediction we use details from the story to change or support our prediction after reading.

  4. Literary Skill: Point of View

  5. Exposition • Introduction of setting, characters and situations

  6. Conflict • The story’s central problem.

  7. Rising Action • Events that increase tension • Occurs after the exposition

  8. Climax • The high point of the story, when the story’s outcome becomes clear and changes in the characters become apparent.

  9. Falling Action • Events that follow the climax • They DECREASE the tension

  10. Resolution • The final outcome

  11. Point of View • First Person: • Narrator takes part in the story….Refers to himself as “I, my” and tells the reader what he or she feels, thinks or sees. • “I could see Mike walking toward me in the tall grass.” • Third Person: • The narrator does not take place in the action. As an outside observer, the narrator relates information the narrator may not know. • “The boy was afraid his mother would be mad that he forgot his lunch.”

  12. Fiction vs. Nonfiction

  13. Prefixes and Suffixes • Prefix • Be- • “to make” • Ex. Bewildered- to make wildered or upset • Pre- • “before” • Ex. Prepay- to pay before getting a service. Ex. A drivethrough • Suffix • -ation • “the condition of being” • Ex. Starvation: the act of being starved • -able • “Having qualities of” • Ex. Charitable – a person having the qualities of showing charity

  14. Grammar: • Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns • Proper Nouns: • Names a particular person, place or thing • Capitalized • Nancy, Miss. Schwartz • Common Nouns • Names a group of people, places, or things • Boy, girl

  15. Singular and Plural Nouns • Singular : ONE person, place or thing • ex,. Book, ball, hat • Plural: refer to more than one • Girls, boys, classmates

  16. Possessive Nouns

  17. Website Features: • URL: Web address • Home page: opening page of a website • Links: connections to other pages or sites • Icons: images or small drawings that often highlight links • Menu: List of links

  18. New Articles • Headline: text that provides an overview of content • Byline: line that shoes who wrote the article • Dateline: information that tells where and when the story takes place • Captions: information about pictures or visuals.

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