Theme 4 Study Guide
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Use this study guide to help you prepare for the test. Keep this in your binder so you can study a little each night and so we can study it here in class, too!
Comprehension Strategies
à Determining Importance: Determine importance for reading by looking for the main ideas in what you are reading. What is your purpose for reading the passage? Then decide which parts of the text help with your purpose (main idea) and which parts of the text are only details. When you determine importance you look for the details that are most important to the main idea.
àReview Ask Questions:
Asking questions helps you make sense of the text. Asking questions before you read will help you make predictions about what you are going to read. Asking questions during and after you read will help you understand the material better.
Word Study
à Reference Materials:
Reference materials are sources that provide information. Encyclopedias provide information about many topics. Atlases show where places are located. Dictionaries tell the meanings of words as well as pronunciation, part of speech, and the origin of the words. Almanacs usually come out each year and give facts about many subjects. A thesaurus gives words that have similar meanings (synonyms) or words that mean the opposite (antonyms). A Bibliography tells where an author found the information used is his/her work. An index is an alphabetical list of all the subjects in a book. A newspaper is a publication about current events and weather.
Writing Process
à Prewriting:
The first thing you should do when writing an essay is to write down all your ideas. Then you can gather information and put all your ideas into a graphic organizer.
à Form: Poem
When you are writing a poem, the best way to appeal to the imagination of a reader is to use descriptive language. Most poems use rhythm and rhyme to help the poem flow.
Grammar
à Proper Nouns:
A proper noun is a specific person, place or thing. Like the person, Donna; the city of Nashville; or a day like Friday. A proper noun ALWAYS starts with a capital letter.
à Plural Nouns:
A plural noun means more than one. For example: one child – many children; one dog – many dogs.
Target Skills
à Alliteration:
An alliteration is the repetition of a beginning sound. For example: Uncle’s music moved us all in a major way. Or, Rafe ripped a riff so wild and true.
à Point of View:
First Person Point of View – You can always tell that something is written in First Person because the narrator uses the words I, my, me, and mine.
Vocabulary Words
àWeek 1
1) melody – n., The main tune of a song.
2) harmony – n., When different tunes in a song go well together
3) broadcast – v., To send a television or radio program over the airwaves
4) improvise – v., To make it up as you go along
5) experiment – n., The act of trying something to see if it works.
àWeek 2
1) length – n., How long something is.
2) concentrate – v., To pay close attention to something.
3) instrument – n., A devise for producing sound.
4) vibration – n., A rapid back and forth movement..
5) pitch – n., How high or how low a sound is.
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