Paired Passages

What is a literary nonfiction text?

• A text that has headings and subheadings

• A text that is fiction

• A text that is nonfiction but has fiction elements

• A photograph

What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the main idea?

• Who is the main character?
• What is the main event?
• What is one important detail?
• What point is the author trying to make?

What does the MAIN IDEA of a story tell the reader?

• When to eat lunch
• The conflict of the story
• What the story is about 
• The universal truth, moral, or idea the author wants to express

A section in a history book describing the conditions and causes of the Great Depression

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

An article where the author argues that an iPhone is better than an Android phone

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

The problem in a story is the...

• theme
• resolution
• climax
• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

What is the Time and Place of the Story?

• Rising Action
• Plot
• Conflict
• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

The point of view where the narrator is telling his or her own story. Uses words such as I, me, we, our, etc.

• 3rd Person
• 2nd Person
• 1st Person
• 4th person

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.6

What is the lesson, message, or moral of a story?

• exposition
• theme
• plot
• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.2

In which kind of nonfiction, does the author tell their own life story?

• autobiography

• biography