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'The Proudest Blue': reading and writing
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What is an author?
a person who creates food recipes
a person who writes stories or other texts ✓
a person who writes music
What is a character in a story?
a person or animal in a story ✓
where the story takes place
the person who writes the story
What is a setting?
the people or animals in the story
where the author wrote the story
where the story takes place ✓
What is an illustration?
the text on the back of the book
the words inside the book
a picture in a book ✓
Put the following in the order they appear in a story.
1
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Beginning
2
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Build-up
3
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Problem
4
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Resolution
Which of the following support you in reading and understanding a text?
using phonics strategies to decode unfamiliar words ✓
re-reading a sentence fluently after decoding ✓
guessing unfamiliar words and what they mean
asking questions and talking about the text ✓
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