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Which point of view uses pronouns like: I, me, our, and us?

What’s the Point? - 100

1st Person

Which point of view is used when the narrator is not a part of the story and is telling a story about somebody else?

3rd Person

What’s the Point? - 200

List five (5) 3rd person pronouns.

Options Include (but aren’t limited to):

What’s the Point? - 300

He

Them Their

HerselfHis Hers

HerHimItShe

Its

They

Himself Itself

Themselves

Add pronouns to the sentence below so that it is written from the 1st person point of view.

______ friends and ______ love to ride roller coasters because they make ______ stomachs do back flips!

My friends and I love to ride roller coasters because they make our stomachs do back flips!

What’s the Point? - 400

What point of view is being used in the following sentence:

“You’d better give that back to me right now or I’m going to call your mom!” she said to her cousin.

3rd Person

What’s the Point? - 500

P E R S O NP E R S O N

List 3 of the text organization structures we’ve worked on this summer.

Text Talk - 100

Options include:

Question/Answer

Compare/Contrast

Cause/Effect

Problem/SolutionSequence

List 5 key words that could show that a text is organized using sequence.

Options include (but aren’t limited to):

Text Talk - 200

afterbeforelastfirst thirdsecond

start

finallylaterthen next

begin

following

finish end

dates and times

What is the most human-like behavior you saw in chimpanzees?

Question/Answer

Text Talk - 300

Chimps can be deliberately deceptive. For example, [one] day a young male called Figan looked up [and saw] a banana no one else had seen. He glanced over and saw three older males [close by, so he left without the banana. Then, after] they left [Figan] came back to [take the banana.]

What’s the biggest difference between humans and chimps?

Below is part of an interview with Jane Goodall, a scientist who has researched chimpanzees for more than 50 years. Read the interview and decide which type of text organization is being used.

Talking. Because we can discuss ideas, we can teach about things that aren’t [here]. We can draw from the distant past…and plan the distant future.

Read the paragraph below and decide which text organization structure is being used.

Compare/Contrast

Text Talk - 400

The way Americans prepare their hot dogs depends on where they live. Hot dog lovers in Chicago often use yellow mustard, dark green relish, …[and] tomato slices…on their hot dogs. In the south, however, people put coleslaw on their hot dogs. People from New York like their hot dogs with a lot of onions, and Kansas City residents enjoy their hot dogs with sauerkraut and melted Swiss cheese.

Problem/Solution

Text Talk - 500

Read the paragraph below and decide which text organization structure is being used.

Having straight teeth is important. Teeth that are crooked…affect the way a person chews and talks and how their smile looks. Because they have unnatural spaces, crooked teeth are harder to clean and more likely to have cavities. One [way] to [fix] this is to…[get] braces and retainers. [These] work by putting gentle pressure on teeth to straighten ones that are growing, or have already grown, out of place.

What two things do you need to make an inference?

 

a) Evidence and creativity

b) Evidence and experience

c) Experience and creativity

d) Opinions and details

Use Your Head - 100

B. Evidence and experience

Use your incredible inferencing skills to solve the riddle:

• I am round.

• My favorite number is one.

• I am made of copper.

• My face is the face of a dead man.

What am I?

A penny!

Use Your Head - 200

Use your incredible inferencing skills to solve the riddle:

Use Your Head - 300

A bee!

• I am fast when in flight.

• I like to be around flowers.

• I hurt people sometimes.

• My mom is a queen.

What am I?

Use Your Head - 400

Which of the statements below can you infer from the following paragraph:

Toads are no longer as common in some areas as they were a few [years] ago. The growing use of insecticides has reduced their numbers. The chemical sprays usually do not harm frogs or toads, but cut down the animals’ food supply.

a) Gardeners are frustrated that insecticides do not get rid of frogs and toads. b) When there are not many insects (bugs) to eat toads are not able to survive in an area. c) When insecticides kill the bugs, frogs eat toads instead, which decreases the number of toads in an area.

B) When there are not many insects (bugs) to eat toads are not able to survive in an area.

Use Your Head - 500

Imagine pulling into a service station to fuel up your car. But not at the gas pump or electric battery charger—at the air pump! That’s not hot air, either! The next generation of cars might run on thin air. Wouldn’t that be an incredible way to cut both pollution and dependence on foreign oil?

Which of the statements below can you infer from the following paragraph:

a) It is safer to drive cars that use batteries rather than cars that run on air. b) Pollution and dependence on foreign oil are problems that we should try to solve. c) Cars that run on air would be more expensive than ones that use gas.

B) Pollution and dependence on foreign oil are problems that we should try to solve.

Like a Box of Chocolates - 100

What point of view is this sentence written in?

He asked if I could play basketball after school with him.

Third -person

Like a Box of Chocolates - 200

What type of graphic organizer would you use when reading or writing a compare/contrast piece of text?

A Venn Diagram!

 Use your incredible inferencing skills to solve this riddle:

• I have lots of animals, like lions, tigers, and elephants.

• I like to travel all over the country.

• Some of my employees walk a very thin line.

• Some call me the greatest show on earth.

What am I?

Like a Box of Chocolates - 300

A circus

Like a Box of Chocolates - 400

There are several possible reasons why my brother has had straight A’s. For starters, he never misses a day of school, unless my mother makes him stay home because he is contagious. He sits in the front of all of his classes and away from his friends so he has total concentration on what the teacher. He also stays after school to participate in the tutoring program. When he comes home from school, he doesn’t play first, he finishes his homework and then reads a book. He doesn’t get distracted by the television or telephone like I do. As a result of all of these things, he is able to keep his grades up and earn a 4.0.

What text organization strategy is being used in this passage?

Cause and Effect

Like a Box of Chocolates - 500

What two text organization strategies are being used in this passage?

During the Civil War, a woman named Clara Barton heard stories of wounded and suffering soldiers and felt she needed to help. She urged people to donate bandages and medicine. She also headed a group that searched for missing soldiers. After four years of this work, Clara moved to Switzerland. It was there that she first learned about a group called the Red Cross. In 1873 Clara returned to the United States. In 1881 she started an American branch of the Red Cross. As the result of Clara's hard work and leadership, the Red Cross grew and still helps those in need today.

Sequence and Cause & Effect