Miss Escano 5th Grade English Understanding Text Miss Escano 5th Grade English
Objectives South Carolina Standards: Students will be able to differentiate among the first-person, limited-omniscient (third person), and omniscient (third person) points of view. Students will use context clues to generate the meanings of unfamiliar and multiple-meaning words. Students will use Greek and Latin roots and affixes to determine the meanings of words within texts. South Carolina Standards: 5-1.2, 5-3.1, 5-3.2
Review― Point of View What is first-person? Writing using “I” and “we” Something we read that was in first person: “My name is Peak. Yeah, I know: weird name. But you don’t get to pick your name or your parents. (Or a lot of other things in life for that matter.)”
Third Person Limited Omniscient Omniscient The narrator can see into the minds of some of the characters, but not all. They usually see through the eyes of the main character. Omniscient The narrator is all-knowing, can interpret events and relate the thoughts and feelings of any character. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOVMM60Sm2c
Understanding Text Context Clues Let’s try a few… Sometimes the meaning to a word is in the text around it. You have to read the text before and after the word to figure it out. Let’s try a few…
Context Clues The first review on the movie was favorable. Many people attended and enjoyed the movie. Some people even saw the movie three times! Negative Uncertain Positive Clear
Context Clues Her quiet, timid ways made us guess at her true feelings about the story because she kept her ideas to herself and never spoke in class. Shy Boisterous Kind Seriously
Roots and Affixes Another way to find the meaning of words The roots at the beginning of a word are called prefixes Prefix Meaning Example Ab- Apart, Away from Abnormal Bible- Book Bibliography Circum- Around Circumference Ex- Outside Exterior Geo- Earth Geography
Roots and Affixes The roots at the end of words are called suffixes Meaning Example -algia Pain Nostalgia -cule Very small Molecule -er, -or One who, That which Teacher, Professor -ess Female Lioness -fy Make Beautify
Prefixes Knowing that the root “Ab-” means “Away, apart from”, what can we say abnormal means? Away or apart from normal Exoskeleton? Outside skeleton
Suffixes With suffixes, you may need to read it backwards Baker: One who bakes Lioness: Female lion
Prefixes and Suffixes If you put both prefixes and suffixes together, you can figure out the meaning of the whole word. Geology “Geo-” means Earth “-logy” means study of Geology = study of Earth Notice that we have to read the suffix before the prefix to figure out the meaning!
We have discussed… First person point of view Third person point of view Omniscient Omniscient limited Context clues Prefixes Suffixes