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1 Facilitating Students Comprehension: Text Factors
Tompkins Chapter 9

2 Stories Formats-picture books, chapter books, novels
Genres-Folklore, Fantasies, Realistic Fiction (p. 292) Elements of Story Structure

3 Plot Sequence of events involving characters in conflict situations
Divided into beginning, middle, end Conflicts between: characters and nature characters and society characters in the story and within a character

4 Conflicts A problem Roadblocks High Point Solution

5 Characters Appearance Action Dialogue Monologue

6 Setting Location Weather Time Period Time

7 Point of View First person Omniscient Limited Omniscient Objective

8 Theme Underlying meaning of the story Explicit vs. Implicit

9 Narrative Devices p. 301 Dialogue Flashback Foreshadowing Imagery
Suspense Symbolism Tone

10 Informational Books/Expository Texts
Nonfiction Genres- Biographies Alphabet Books

11 Figure 9--10 The Five Expository Text Structures
Gail E. Tompkins Literacy for the 21st Century, 3e Copyright ©2003 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All rights reserved.

12 Figure continued Gail E. Tompkins Literacy for the 21st Century, 3e Copyright ©2003 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All rights reserved.

13 Poetry Picture Book Versions of a Single Poem Collections Anthologies

14 Types of Poems Rhymed Narrative Haiku Cinquain Acrostic Five-Sense
Free-Verse I wish… If I were… Odes Concrete Poems

15 Teaching about Text Factors
Mini-lessons Comprehension Strategies Reading and Writing Activities

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