Making Inferences about “Birdfoot’s Grampa”

Making Inferences about “Birdfoot’s Grampa”

I can identify figurative language in a poem

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Which best states a theme of "Birdfoot's Grampa”?

• Look before you leap.

• Technology helps nature.

• Respect one’s elders.

• With age comes wisdom.

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Figurative language

• language that expresses something beyond its literal meaning

• clearly stated and obvious

• language that expresses facts

• suggested or understood without being stated

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Explicit

• language that expresses something beyond its literal meaning

• clearly stated and obvious

• language that expresses facts

• suggested or understood without being stated

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Inference

• language that expresses something beyond its literal meaning

• conclusion made on the basis of implicit or explicit evidence and the reader’s own experiences

• language that expresses facts

• suggested or understood without being stated

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Theme

• one message a text communicates about a topic

• conclusion made on the basis of implicit or explicit evidence and the reader’s own experiences

• language that expresses facts

• suggested or understood without being stated

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Literal language

• language that expresses something beyond its literal meaning

• clearly stated and obvious

• language that expresses facts

• suggested or understood without being stated

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Implicit

• language that expresses something beyond its literal meaning

• clearly stated and obvious

• language that expresses facts

• suggested or understood without being stated

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The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

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Bang, pop, gurgle, slap

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

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Standing tall and frozen like statues in a vacant courtyard

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

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The fire hungrily devoured everything in its path.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Allusion

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Using extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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Comparing to unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

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When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

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When a writer compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Open Ended

Lesson Question: How can inferences help readers understand a poem?

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Read this excerpt from "Birdfoot's Grampa.”

But, leathery hands full

of wet brown life,

knee deep in the summer

roadside grass,

he just smiled and said

they have places to go to

too.

"They have places to go to” is an example of

• hyperbole.

• metaphor.

• personification.

• simile.

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Read this excerpt from "Birdfoot's Grampa.”

The old man

must have stopped our car

two dozen times to climb out

and gather into his hands

the small toads blinded

by our lights and leaping,

live drops of rain.

What are readers most likely to infer from the phrase "blinded by our lights”?

• The action in the poem takes place at night.

• The weather makes the toads difficult to see.

• Another car is coming around the bend.

• Grampa is shining a lantern to see the toads.

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Read this excerpt from "Birdfoot's Grampa.”

The rain was falling,

a mist about his white hair

and I kept saying

you can’t save them all,

accept it, get back in

we’ve got places to go.

Which detail provides a clue that the man is the narrator’s grandfather?

• The narrator is impatient.

• They have places to go.

• The man has white hair.

• The rain is falling.

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Which best states a theme of "Birdfoot's Grampa”?

• Never give up, even when victory looks unlikely.

• Arguments often occur during family trips.

• All living things have value and should be helped.

• Traveling by car on dark roads is dangerous.