Understanding and Responding to Texts: Unit Review

It is a journal entry: someone's own day, with a date. It tells about real-feeling events in a personal way. (A journal is a recount, so it can be called informational or literary. Either answer with a good reason is fine.)

Any two: it is short, has talking animals, and teaches a lesson.

To find information: to learn how to build it.

The date: Sunday, December 14.

Dad checked the ice first. The text is in chronological order.

It shows the parts of a book and their page numbers, so you can find information quickly.

So readers see them first and get the main message quickly.

For the audience (kids and families) to want to buy the toy.

Young children and their families (parents, caregivers).

What I already know, text features (title, pictures, headings), and evidence in the text.

Example: "I think they will go skating because Dad is checking if the ice is safe and it is winter."

Revise it (change it).

Reread, visualize (picture it), and ask questions. (Also: look at pictures, read on, ask someone.)

Look for: foggy puffs of breath in the cold air coming out of the skater's mouth.

Answers will vary. Example: "Rereading, because I often notice a word I missed the first time."

Answers will vary. Example: "This reminds me of when I went skating at the outdoor rink and my toes got cold too."

Text-to-world.

Example: "...because they wrote It was the best day of the winter so far!"

The writer goes skating on the frozen pond for the first time this winter and loves it.

Dad checked the ice. Laced up skates. Went home for hot soup.

Alike: both are about skating outdoors in winter. Different: this one is a first-person journal that is all about the fun of the first skate; Lily is a third-person story about learning to skate with her brother's help.

To make sure it was safe (thick enough) so no one would fall through.

Excited and eager. The clue is as fast as I could.

Implied. Clues: the pond froze, my breath made little clouds, toes were numb, hot soup.

The ice was as smooth as glass. It compares the ice to glass.

The k sound. This is consonance.

To show excitement. It gives the journal an excited voice.

First person. The narrator uses I and my.

"She (or He, or a name) laced up her (his) skates."

Implicit. The word choice shows the snow was hard work, but it doesn't say I don't like snow.

Any one: find their way, show a good place to hunt or fish, mark where food is stored.

The Métis sash.

To remember the children who were sent to residential schools and to say Every Child Matters (National Day for Truth and Reconciliation).

Who made it and why? Do two or more sources agree? Does it make sense?

No. It is private information. Strangers could find out where you are each day.

Think, plan, make, test, improve.