Non-Fiction Test Review
1. Read “Super Croc” in your Interactive Reader and complete the margin activities.
2. Read informational or news articles on Time For Kids or Newsela.com.
Non-Fiction Text Skills Focus
· What is the author’s purpose in this text?
o To inform?
o To explain?
o To persuade or convince?
o To compare?
· What is each section or paragraph mainly about?
· What are some supporting details that give specific information about the main idea?
· How and why does the author use text features? [Pictures, diagrams, maps, subheadings, timelines, etc.]
· How would you summarize the article?
· Focus on a person within the article and try to come up with what opinion he/she would have about the topic of the article. [Identify perspective] Be able to find quotes that are textual evidence to support what you come up with.
· Vocabulary – look up words you are unfamiliar with, read through provided definitions, and use context clues to understand how specific words are used in the article.
3. Use a newspaper or the Internet to find some editorial cartoons.
· What is the topic of the cartoon? What current event do you need to know something about to understand?
· What is the cartoonist’s opinions about his/her topic? What is his/her message?
· What techniques or devices does the cartoonist use to create his/her message? [caricature, symbolism, irony, exaggeration, etc.]
Non-Fiction Test Review
4. Read “Super Croc” in your Interactive Reader and complete the margin activities.
5. Read informational or news articles on Time For Kids or Newsela.com.
Non-Fiction Text Skills Focus
· What is the author’s purpose in this text?
o To inform?
o To explain?
o To persuade or convince?
o To compare?
· What is each section or paragraph mainly about?
· What are some supporting details that give specific information about the main idea?
· How and why does the author use text features? [Pictures, diagrams, maps, subheadings, timelines, etc.]
· How would you summarize the article?
· Focus on a person within the article and try to come up with what opinion he/she would have about the topic of the article. [Identify perspective] Be able to find quotes that are textual evidence to support what you come up with.
· Vocabulary – look up words you are unfamiliar with, read through provided definitions, and use context clues to understand how specific words are used in the article.
6. Use a newspaper or the Internet to find some editorial cartoons.
· What is the topic of the cartoon? What current event do you need to know something about to understand?
· What is the cartoonist’s opinions about his/her topic? What is his/her message?
· What techniques or devices does the cartoonist use to create his/her message? [caricature, symbolism, irony, exaggeration, etc.]