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Hook

Have you ever wanted something really bad, but your parents said NO?

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By Erica Garza

Look through the text and questions and determine the genre.

Multiple Choice

What type of genre is this text?

• Fiction

• Literary Nonfiction

• Informational

• Drama

Open Ended

Write 2-3 things you noticed that helped you determine it was a fiction.

Academic Vocabulary

​Context Clues (All genres)

clues good readers use to find meaning of words
- Read around the word
- plug-it in to see if it flows

Academic Vocabulary

​Interaction (Fiction)

The way characters communicate
- Think F.A.S.T.
- Think +/-
- It won't always be through words

Academic Vocabulary

​Summary (all genres)

retelling the story in your own words
- story must be told in BME
- Every detail must be an important detail from the text
- Read sentence by sentence to determine BME
- If first sentence doesn't match, ELIMINATE!

Academic Vocabulary

​Inferencing (all genres)

using text evidence and what you know to make a guess
- keywords: conclude, infer, suggest
- inference is NOT in the text

Academic Vocabulary

​"event occurs as a result"

• what came out of that event

• did they learn something or do something