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- Analyze Character, Setting, and Plot
- Retell a Story
- Identify an Unstated Main Idea
- Main Idea Sentences
- Identify Problem and Solution
- Find a Solution
- Summarize
- The Summary Game
- Make Comparisons
- What’s the Difference?
- Listen for the Facts
- Analyze Author’s Purpose
- What’s Your Purpose?
- Make Inferences and Analyze
- Follow All Clues
- Cause-and-Effect Relationships
- Cause and Effect Buildup
- Order of Events
- Instructions in Chronological Order
- Draw Conclusions
- Play Detective
- Make and Analyze Predictions
- Can You Make a Prediction?
- Chronological Order of Events
- Directions Out of Order
- Identify Theme
- Theme Theater
- Identify Facts and Details
- It Looks and Sounds Good
- Make Judgments
- You Be the Judge
- Draw Conclusions
- Color Me Hidden
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Explain Point out that not every piece of information in a nonfiction article is equally important. Sometimes when they read nonfiction students will be looking for information about a specific subject and should focus on the facts and details most relevant to that subject. Then explain that authors of nonfiction often use the description text structure to give characteristics about their subject.
Guided Practice/Practice Have each student name a kind of tree and give relevant facts and details about it. (For instance, a fir tree is evergreen, has flat leaves called needles, and has cones.) Suggest that they use Description Webs to organize the characteristics of the tree they have chosen. Then ask them to draw a picture of their tree and add the web to it.