HOW TO MAKE CONNECTIONS?
Using Prior Knowledge/Previewing
Predicting
Identifying the Main Idea and
Summarization
Questioning
Making Inferences
Visualizing
Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Narrative Text
Story Maps
Teachers can have students diagram the story grammar of the text to raise their awareness of the
elements the author uses to construct the story. Story grammar includes:
Setting: When and where the story takes place (which can change over the course of the story).
Characters: The people or animals in the story, including the protagonist (main character), whose
motivations and actions drive the story.
Plot: The story line, which typically includes one or more problems or conflicts that the protagonist
must address and ultimately resolve.
Theme: The overriding lesson or main idea that the author wants readers to glean from the story. It
could be explicitly stated as in Aesop’s Fables or inferred by the reader (more common).
Retelling
Asking students to retell a story in their own words forces them to analyze the content to determine
what is important. Teachers can encourage students to go beyond literally recounting the story to
drawing their own conclusions about it.
Prediction
Teachers can ask readers to make a prediction about a story based on the title and any other clues that
are available, such as illustrations. Teachers can later ask students to find text that supports or
contradicts their predictions.
Answering Comprehension Questions
Asking students different types of questions requires that they find the answers in different ways, for
example, by finding literal answers in the text itself or by drawing on prior knowledge and then inferring
answers based on clues in the text.
Compare and contrast
Main idea & supporting details/key events
Sequencing
Story elements
Conclusion & Inferences
Context clues
Cause & Effect
Fact Vs Fiction
Fact Vs Opinion
Prediction
Figurative Language
Problem and solution
Completing sentences with nouns
Classifying nouns as a person, place or thing
Nouns as direct objects
Countable and uncountable nouns
Nouns
Collective nouns
Regular plural nouns
Irregular nouns
Concrete and abstract nouns
Verbs The perfect tenses
The progressive (continuous) tenses
The perfect progressive tense
Verb conjugation
Noun-verb agreement
Descriptive verbs
Correcting verb tenses
Verb tense shifts
Verb tense practice (longer texts)
Adjectives Ordering adjectives
Prepositional phrases as adjectives
Comparative and superlative adjectives
Using hyperbole
Adverbs "How, when or where" adverbs
Comparative adverbs (-ly, -er, -est)
Relative adverbs
Adverb phrases
Prepositional phrases as adverbs
Comparative and superlative adverbs
Pronouns Pronoun agreement
Who, whom or whose?
That or which?
Relative pronouns
Points of view (1st person, 2nd person ...)
Possessive, relative and indefinite pronouns
Pronoun - noun agreement
Other parts of speech
Sentences
Punctuation
Capitalization
Identifying & using nouns, plural nouns, proper nouns, possessive nouns, collective nouns, abstract nouns
Action verbs, linking verbs, helping verbs, plural verbs, conjugating verbs, verb tenses, irregular verbs
Identifying, selecting and writing adjectives, comparative adjectives, ordering adjectives
Identifying, selecting and writing adverbs, relative adverbs, reflexive pronouns
Personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, indefinite pronouns, subject and object pronouns, relative pronouns
Using various parts of speech, articles, determiners, prepositions, prepositional phrases
Sentence fragments, simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, conjunctions, run-on sentences, subjects an
Proper names, sentences, dates, seasons, holidays, place names, titles, proper adjectives
Ending punctuation, punctuating dates, addresses and letters, commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, contractions, colons
n sentences, subjects and predicates, direct objects
contractions, colons
Sr. No Objectives
1 SWBAT comment about the story/characters/events in the story
2 SWBAT identify and state their preferences
3 SWBAT identify similarities between the characters and themsleves
4 SWBAT identify and describe their preferences by comparing it to their own experience
5 SWBAT describe character feelings
6 SWBAT identify character motive in the story
7 SWBAT describe character personality traits
8 SWBAT describe the setting of the story
9 SWBAT describe and anticipate events in the story
10 SWBAT identify main idea in the text
11 SWBAT identify and state their preferences
SWBAT identify author's/ character's perspective on different matters in the story and
find textual evidence to support it
SWBAT describe their response to author's/ character's perspective and provide reasons
for it
SWBAT describe the connections they make to the text based on prior knowledge and
experience
SWBAT describe their opinions about the text and provide reasons for it
SWBAT describe the setting of the text
SWBAT describe character traits and development.
Writing
SWBAT use capital letters and full stops correctly.
SWBAT ideate and draft a story based on their personal experience.
SWBAT add details to their story.
SWBAT use exclamation marks and question marks accurately
SWBAT construct correct sentences (subject-verb-object) in their writing
SWBAT ideate and draft a ideate and draft a real or imagined narrative.
SWBAT use adjectives accurately in their writing
