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Reading Skills 4 Grade
Reading Tasks
Good Morning Students !!
Today you will be practicing some reading tasks
Author’s purpose
Figurative Language-1
Figurative language -2
Point of view
You will click on each reading task on the left and
practice each activity and complete quizzes.
I will be monitoring your progress and will be grading all
printed quizzes and journal entries.
Poetry
Inferences
Cause and effect
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Synonyms
Antonyms
Language and grammar
practice
Below you will find a review of all reading skills.
Click on the mouse below to review all skills.
Author’s Purpose
Inform
Figurative Language
Simile
Point of View
First person
Third Person
Poetry
Stanza
Rhyme
Inferences
Formulate guesses and conclusions from what you
know.
When one event cause another event to happen.
The cause is telling why it happens. The effect is
telling what happens.
Antonyms - are words that have opposite meanings.
Synonyms - are words that have similar meanings
Cause and Effect
Synonyms and antonyms
persuade
entertain
metaphor personification
verse
Rhythm
alliteration
form
Author’s Purpose
Persuade
Inform
The author is trying to get
you to think in a certain way.
To convince you to buy
something or do something.
To teach you something. To
provide you with information,
or instructions about how to
do something.
Figurative Language
Simile -
The girl could jump like a kangaroo!
Making an unrelated comparison without use of “as or like”
Ex.
Personification-
To entertain you or make
you laugh. Fiction writing
that will amuse you, and
keep your interest.
A comparison using “as or like”
Ex. He is as fast as a cheetah.
Metaphor -
Entertain
The storm is a monster.
John is a walking dictionary.
Describing something non-human performing human actions or having
human characteristics.
Ex. The pen danced across her paper.
The swimming pool is calling my name.
Alliteration -
A series of two or more words having the same beginning letter or
the same beginning sound.
Ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Seashells along the sea shore.
Point of View
Let's review Point of View.
First-person Point of View
A character in the story is
the narrator. This
character is telling the
story. The narrator uses
the pronouns I, me and we.
In first-person point of
view, readers learn about
events as the narrator
learns about them.
Poetry terms
Stanza -
Third-person Point of View
The story is being told by
an outside observer someone who is not in the
story. The author uses the
pronouns he, she, and they.
In third-person point of
view, the author can tell
about the thoughts, actions,
and feelings of the other
characters.
A section or division of a poem: specifically a grouping of lines that
develops an idea.
Rhyme -
When two words sound the same at the end.
Rhythm or meter-
The pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed
syllables identified in a poem.
Form -
Lines of poetry that have the same Rhythms or rhymes in a pattern
throughout a poem. Poetry forms are patterned using letters such
as : ABAB or ABBA
Inferences
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Cause and effect
When one event causes amother event to happen. The cause is telling
why it happens. The effect is telling what happens.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms - are words that have similar meanings.
Examples:
Large – enormous
funny – humorous
Antonyms - are words that have opposite meanings.
Examples:
Fast – slow
Loud - soft
Student Survey
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3 – was very good
I enjoyed working and learning on the computer.
The directions were clear and easy to follow.
The activities were easy to follow.
The activities explained wrong answers and allowed you to try again.
The review of reading skills were very helpful.
I reaaly enjoyed learning this way.
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How would you rate this overall reading experience.
Total Points
2 -average