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Reading Strategy 9

“Identify and interpret literary elements in different genres.”

Good readers identify elements of setting, plot and characterization in a text. They can describe where and when the story takes place, retell the plot, recognize the problem, and identify character traits.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Bubble Thinking
  • Oral Retelling
  • Plot Profile – Story Graph
  • Plot Profile – Story Map
  • Sociogram
  • Story Board
  • Story Cycles
  • Story Grammar
  • Think Aloud
  • Venn Diagram

Header-Reading-Writing-Connect-Activities-2Primary
  • 10 idées écolos pour sauver ma planète
  • 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World
  • Dooby Dooby Moo
  • Egg Drop
  • Emu
  • Le Zloukch
  • Move Over, Rover!
  • Quatre petits coins de rien de tout
  • Salmon Creek
  • Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!
  • Special Delivery
  • Taan’s Moons
  • The Most Magnificent Thing
  • The Salamander Room

Intermediate
  • Crickwing
  • Frog Girl
  • La belle lisse poire
  • Out of My Mind
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • Wonder

 Secondary
  • Childhood Obesity
  • L’il Trig’s Big Adventure
  • The Three Questions
  • The Trouble with Testosterone
teacher hints

Identify the literary elements and devices of a variety of genres of fiction. Discuss their influence on the text. Consider focusing on these in your reader:

Literary genres:
• novels
• short stories
• poetry
• plays

Types of fiction:
• fantasy/fairy tales/tall tales/legends
• adventure
• biography
• history
• mystery
• science fiction

Literary elements:
• character
• plot
• setting
• conflict/resolution
• point of view
• theme

Literary devices:
• metaphor
• simile
• irony
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• alliteration

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