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Slide 1Narrative Elements
Plot is the sequence of events in a story. This is the action in the story. It includes a problem and a solution. In a good story, the order of events helps keep readers interested in the story.
Characters are the people in a story.
Theme is the overall message or idea of the story. The author does not usually state the theme directly.
Also use Transparency 87 TE 224I
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Narrative Elements
Setting is the time and place in which the story events occur. The place may be real or imaginary. The author usually tells you where the story takes place. The author doesn’t always tell you when the story takes place. You must figure it out for yourself. Clues that will help you are the way in which the characters talk and dress, and descriptions of the things they use and the things they do in their daily lives.
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Narrative Elements
Why do you think the series of events that make up a plot must take place in a certain order?
Why is it important for an author to develop their characters?
What clues can help you determine the setting?
Why do you think it is necessary to think about the story to decide what the theme is?
so the plot will make sense
feeling that reader knows them, cares about what happens
the way characters talk and dress, descriptions of things they use and things they do
theme is usually stated indirectly and must be figured out from what happens in the story
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Summarize
Good readers use the summarize strategy as they read to help them gain understanding of the important information in a story. Good readers are active readers, and they pay attention to whether they understand what they are reading. When you summarize what you are reading, you are recalling the important narrative elements in the story, such as the setting, plot, characters, and theme.
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Read “Island of the Blue Dolphins” on pages 226 – 243.
Complete the Story Map after you read.
On the back of the Story Map write a summary of the story using the information from your map.
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Making Inferences
Authors do not always directly state everything necessary for understanding a story.
Sometimes an author gives enough information to help the reader infer what is not stated.
To make inferences, you need to figure out what the author has left unsaid, based on your own experience and on events and dialogue in the story.
Reread the text on page 228.
Use transparency of TE243A and Transparency 89 on TE 243B
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Making Inferences
Because we are reading a passage from the middle of the book, we need to make inferences about what is going on and how the characters are connected.
Example: I wonder why Ulape and Nanko are insulting each other. Then I read that Karana says Ulape is in love with Nanko. I know that people sometimes say things they don’t mean in order to hide their feelings or as a joke. I don’t think that Ulape and Nanko really mean what they are saying.
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Figurative Language
Writers use figurative language to add interest to their work. Figurative language has a meaning different from the literal sense of the words. The reader must look for this special meaning.
Can the following sentences be true? What kind of figurative language is each sentence? What do they really mean?
The trip to the zoo took forever.
Dad was a bear this morning.
No; a long trip; hyperbole
No; dad was grouchy; metaphor
Use TE 243D
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What are the other two kinds of figurative language?
What kind of figurative language is each sentence? What do they really mean?
She is as pretty as a picture.
The breeze tickled her cheek.
Simile – very pretty
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Analogies
Analogies are made up of two pairs of words that are related to each other in the same way.
To complete an analogy, determine the relationship of the first pair of words and think of a word that would show the same relationship between the second pair.
Complete the following analogies.
whisper
den
defeat
happy
calm
Was cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
Technical director for Paramount
Died on October 15, 1989
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MacMillan Connections – Landscapes, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987.
Plot is the sequence of events in a story. This is the action in the story. It includes a problem and a solution. In a good story, the order of events helps keep readers interested in the story.
Characters are the people in a story.
Theme is the overall message or idea of the story. The author does not usually state the theme directly.
Also use Transparency 87 TE 224I
Created by RKL
Narrative Elements
Setting is the time and place in which the story events occur. The place may be real or imaginary. The author usually tells you where the story takes place. The author doesn’t always tell you when the story takes place. You must figure it out for yourself. Clues that will help you are the way in which the characters talk and dress, and descriptions of the things they use and the things they do in their daily lives.
Created by RKL
Narrative Elements
Why do you think the series of events that make up a plot must take place in a certain order?
Why is it important for an author to develop their characters?
What clues can help you determine the setting?
Why do you think it is necessary to think about the story to decide what the theme is?
so the plot will make sense
feeling that reader knows them, cares about what happens
the way characters talk and dress, descriptions of things they use and things they do
theme is usually stated indirectly and must be figured out from what happens in the story
Created by RKL
Summarize
Good readers use the summarize strategy as they read to help them gain understanding of the important information in a story. Good readers are active readers, and they pay attention to whether they understand what they are reading. When you summarize what you are reading, you are recalling the important narrative elements in the story, such as the setting, plot, characters, and theme.
Created by RKL
Read “Island of the Blue Dolphins” on pages 226 – 243.
Complete the Story Map after you read.
On the back of the Story Map write a summary of the story using the information from your map.
Created by RKL
Making Inferences
Authors do not always directly state everything necessary for understanding a story.
Sometimes an author gives enough information to help the reader infer what is not stated.
To make inferences, you need to figure out what the author has left unsaid, based on your own experience and on events and dialogue in the story.
Reread the text on page 228.
Use transparency of TE243A and Transparency 89 on TE 243B
Created by RKL
Making Inferences
Because we are reading a passage from the middle of the book, we need to make inferences about what is going on and how the characters are connected.
Example: I wonder why Ulape and Nanko are insulting each other. Then I read that Karana says Ulape is in love with Nanko. I know that people sometimes say things they don’t mean in order to hide their feelings or as a joke. I don’t think that Ulape and Nanko really mean what they are saying.
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Figurative Language
Writers use figurative language to add interest to their work. Figurative language has a meaning different from the literal sense of the words. The reader must look for this special meaning.
Can the following sentences be true? What kind of figurative language is each sentence? What do they really mean?
The trip to the zoo took forever.
Dad was a bear this morning.
No; a long trip; hyperbole
No; dad was grouchy; metaphor
Use TE 243D
Created by RKL
What are the other two kinds of figurative language?
What kind of figurative language is each sentence? What do they really mean?
She is as pretty as a picture.
The breeze tickled her cheek.
Simile – very pretty
Created by RKL
Analogies
Analogies are made up of two pairs of words that are related to each other in the same way.
To complete an analogy, determine the relationship of the first pair of words and think of a word that would show the same relationship between the second pair.
Complete the following analogies.
whisper
den
defeat
happy
calm
Was cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
Technical director for Paramount
Died on October 15, 1989
Created by RKL
MacMillan Connections – Landscapes, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987.