Year 3 ELA: Keys to Success Moves Close Readers Make 1st Reading: What it says. Read to get a general understanding of the text. What is the text saying? 2nd Reading: How it says it. Read again to understand how the author wrote the text to convey specific ideas and emotions through literary devices and word choices. What literary devices were used? Why did the author choose this word? 3rd Reading: What it means. Go deeper into the text to understand the author’s purpose and theme. Make comparisons to other texts. What does this text mean? What was the author’s point? How does this text connect to other texts? Parts of Speech Noun: a person, place, or thing Examples: lady, school, cheese Verb: shows action or a state of being Examples: jump, write, laugh (action) is, was, are (being) Pronoun: takes the place of a noun or noun phrase Examples: he, she, we, they Adjective: describes a noun by telling what kind, which one, how many, or how much Examples: lazy lions, that cookie, many questions Adverb: describes a verb, an adjective, or another verb. Often ends in ly Examples: quickly running, extremely lazy lions Figurative Language Terms Simile: a comparison between two unlike things using like, as, or than Examples: bright as the sun, quick like a rabbit, faster than a bullet Metaphor: a direct comparison between two unlike things Example: He was a bear in the morning before he had his coffee. Alliteration: the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of a word Example: She sells seashells by the seashore. Repetition: the action of repeating something Example: I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? ELA Terms Affect (verb): to impact, to change Effect (noun): a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause Denotation: the literal or actual meaning of a word; the dictionary definition Connotation: the contextual definition of a word; the meaning of the word as it’s used in that specific text Objective: n ot influenced by personal feelings or opinions; just the facts Subjective: d isplaying bias or opinion; influenced by personal feelings or opinions Literary Terms Mood: the general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of Theme: the general lesson, moral, or underlying meaning of writing creates within the reader a literary work that can be stated directly or indirectly Tone: the speaker’s or narrator’s attitude towards the Foreshadowing: a literary device in which the author gives subject clues about events that will happen later in the story Infer: to draw conclusions based on facts Author’s Purpose: t he reason the author decided to write Compare: to look at two or more things in order to about a specific topic find similarities Text Structure: how the information within a written text is Contrast: to look at two or more things in order to organized find differences Allusion: a reference to student’s background knowledge and their ability to make a connection to a particular story
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