This week we learned the benefits of reading a book, how to choose the right book to enjoy reading, and information to help us read a book. The following are from our class notes to prepare you for a test on what we have learned.
Things a Book can do for you:
• Make you forget your problems
• Provide a free vacation
• Give a sense of satisfaction when you finish
• Help you use your imagination
• Gives you new ideas
• Learn new vocabulary
• Gives you new experiences
• Connect you to the characters
• Make you think and feel for characters
• Teaches you about other ways of life, other types of people, other types of choices
• Give hope for solving problems
• Inspire
• Make you DREAM
7 Steps to Read a Book:
STEP 1: Read “blurbs” inside and outside covers of any book
STEP 2: Glance through the table of contents
STEP 3: Write a list of all the characters
STEP 4: Read and take notes of important or repeated points.
STEP 5: Pay attention to what the narrator says and presents about the characters
STEP 6: Pay attention to dialogue
STEP 7: Make notes on what characters actually do in comparison to what they say.
Reading a Book Vocabulary List:
- 1st Person Point of View: You know who is narrator the story / If you talk about yourself you are 1st person
- 3rd Person Point of View: You don’t know who the narrator is/ use of « he, she, they »
- Plot: The parts of the story (introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)
- Theme: What the book means
- Subject: General topic or topics
- Author’s Judgment: What the author thinks of the character
- Narrator’s Judgment: What the narrator tells us about the characters
- Judgment by others: What other characters say and think about a specific character
- Thoughts or Mental Actions: What the characters think
- Physical Actions: What the characters do
- Dialogue: What the characters say
- Physical Description: What the character looks like
- Characterization: To describe a character
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