Note and Notice-Fiction Signposts

​What do signposts help me understand?

​* They can signal things that you may need to look at more CLOSELY.

​* They may show you things to question in order to draw inferences or make your own conclusions about an author's message.

​**They provide text evidence

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Notice & Note signposts are useful for readers because they

• offer insight into the character

• allow the reader to develop understanding about conflict

• help a reader understand the development of a theme

• all of these

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What question should I ask myself with Contrast and Contradictions?

• Why would a character act or feel this way?

• Why might this memory be important?

• Why might an author bring this up again and again?

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Why is it important to notice a CONTRAST AND CONTRADICTION moment?

• It shows a character is changing and developing

• It shows the character has learned something important

• It shows the reader is surprised by what the author has said

• It shows the character is questioning how he/she should act

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When Rapunzel finally realizes that she's the "lost" princess and remembers her mother and father, she is exemplifying...

• Contrast and Contradictions

• Aha Moment

• Tough Question

• Again and Again

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Missy didn’t know what to do. Her best friend Penny had stolen the science test off of Mr. Phillip’s desk. She was offering cheat sheets to anyone who was willing to pay $5. Missy was conflicted: should she pay the money and join her friend or tell the teacher and risk becoming everyone at school’s new target?

• Words of the Wiser

• Again and Again

• Memory Moment

• Tough Questions

Multiple Choice

Which signpost helps the reader better understand the character's internal conflict?

• Again and Again

• Tough Questions

• Contrast and Contradiction

• All of these