Facilitating Students Comprehension Text Factors Tompkins Chapter 9

Facilitating Students Comprehension: Text Factors Tompkins Chapter 9

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

Plot n n n 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

Conflicts A problem n Roadblocks n High Point n Solution n

Characters n Appearance n Action n Dialogue n Monologue

Setting Location n Weather n Time Period n Time n

Point of View First person n Omniscient n Limited Omniscient n Objective n

Theme Underlying meaning of the story n Explicit vs. Implicit n

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

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

Figure 9 --10 The Five Expository Text Structures Gail E. Tompkins Literacy for the 21 st Century, 3 e Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458

Figure 9 --10 continued Gail E. Tompkins Literacy for the 21 st Century, 3 e Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458

Poetry Picture Book Versions of a Single Poem n Collections n Anthologies n

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

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