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Bellringers 3 rd Quarter

Bellringers 3 rd Quarter. Answer the Bellringer on notebook paper. Put these behind the Bellringer Tab in your notebook. Textual Features. The textual features in a passage help you find information quickly.

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Bellringers 3 rd Quarter

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  1. Bellringers 3rd Quarter • Answer the Bellringer on notebook paper. • Put these behind the Bellringer Tab in your notebook.

  2. Textual Features • The textual features in a passage help you find information quickly. • Passages often have a topic sentence at the beginning that tells what the passage is about and a concluding sentence at the end that sums up what was presented.

  3. Read the passage and answer the questions. (1) Washing your hands helps to keep you from getting sick. (2) Your hands pick up germs when you touch things. (3) Most germs can be washed away with soap and water. (4) Make sure you scrub your hands for at least 30 seconds. (5) Wash your hands often to keep healthy. • Which sentence tells what the paragraph is about? Sentence ____ is the topic sentence. • Which sentence sums up the paragraph? Sentence _____ is the concluding sentence.

  4. Fires are dangerous. Firefighters put out fires and rescue people. There are two kinds of firefighters: forest firefighters and city firefighters. All firefighters need to know about fire, understand the equipment they use, and use first aid to help people. Firefighters must be brave. City firefighters climb into burning buildings to search for people. Forest firefighters may even parachute into a fire to get it under control. It is a dangerous job, but it is important. • Which is the topic sentence? • Firefighters put out fires and rescue people. • Firefighters must be brave. • There are two kinds of firefighters. • Fires are dangerous.

  5. Fires are dangerous. Firefighters put out fires and rescue people. There are two kinds of firefighters: forest firefighters and city firefighters. All firefighters need to know about fire, understand the equipment they use, and use first aid to help people. Firefighters must be brave. City firefighters climb into burning buildings to search for people. Forest firefighters may even parachute into a fire to get it under control. It is a dangerous job, but it is important. • Which is the concluding sentence? • Fires are dangerous. • Firefighters must be brave. • Firefighters put out fires and rescue people. • It is a dangerous job, but it is important.

  6. Author’s Purpose Fill in the blanks as a way to remember an author’s purpose in writing. P_ _ _ _ _ _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

  7. Fragment or Sentence? 1. When the downhill skiing season begins. ______ 2. Last summer I visited my friend in New Jersey. ______ 3. The dog chased the cat up the tree. ______ • Niagara Falls is an amazing sight. _____ • Yosemite, Sentinel, and Silver Strand. ______ 6. Similar to other great waterfalls around the world. ______

  8. Answers… 1. When the downhill skiing season begins. F 2. Last summer I visited my friend in New Jersey. S 3. The dog chased the cat up the tree. S • Niagara Falls is an amazing sight. S • Yosemite, Sentinel, and Silver Strand. F 6. Similar to other great waterfalls around the world. F

  9. A glossary gives definitions of important words in the text. HyperboleAn extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. MetaphorAn implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. OnomatopoeiaThe use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. Personification A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities. Simile A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.

  10. An index lists subjects discussed in the text and gives the pages where they can be found. Look at the two entries below. Write the phrases that describe them. Mars missions: pages 157-159 Moon missions: pages 96-105, 173, 191 Listed in alphabetical order tells word meanings locates subjects in the text • From where do these entries come? • Glossary • Index • Table of contents

  11. The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph or passage. It tells what the writing is mostly about. Essential or supporting details give information to support, or tell about, a main idea.

  12. Run-on or Complete Sentence? 1. Niagara Falls is an amazing sight, I visited it last summer. _____ 2. Cataract is another name for waterfall the word has other meanings, too. _____ 3. The waterfall was discovered by James C. Angel, it is named after him. ______ 4. Explorer David Livingstone named the falls after British Queen Victoria. ______

  13. Answers… 1. Niagara Falls is an amazing sight, I visited it last summer. _____ RO 2. Cataract is another name for waterfall the word has other meanings, too. _____ RO 3. The waterfall was discovered by James C. Angel, it is named after him. ______ RO 4. Explorer David Livingstone named the falls after British Queen Victoria. ______ CS

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