Miss Escano5th GradeEnglish

Understanding Text

Objectives Students will be able to differentiate among the first-

person, limited-omniscient (third person), and omniscient (third person) points of view.

Students will use context clues to generate the meanings of unfamiliar and multiple-meaning words.

Students will use Greek and Latin roots and affixes to determine the meanings of words within texts.

South Carolina Standards:5-1.2, 5-3.1, 5-3.2

Review― Point of View What is first-person?

Writing using “I” and “we”

Something we read that was in first person:

“My name is Peak. Yeah, I know: weird name. But you don’t get to pick your name or your parents. (Or a lot of other things in life for that matter.)”

Third Person Limited Omniscient

The narrator can see into the minds of some of the characters, but not all. They usually see through the eyes of the main character.

Omniscient The narrator is all-knowing, can interpret

events and relate the thoughts and feelings of any character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOVMM60Sm2c

Understanding Text Context Clues

Sometimes the meaning to a word is in the text around it.

You have to read the text before and after the word to figure it out.

Let’s try a few…

Context Clues The first review on the movie was

favorable. Many people attended and enjoyed the movie. Some people even saw the movie three times! Negative Uncertain Positive Clear

Context Clues Her quiet, timid ways made us guess at

her true feelings about the story because she kept her ideas to herself and never spoke in class. Shy Boisterous Kind Seriously

Roots and Affixes Another way to find the meaning of

words The roots at the beginning of a word are

called prefixesPrefix Meaning ExampleAb- Apart, Away from AbnormalBible- Book BibliographyCircum- Around CircumferenceEx- Outside ExteriorGeo- Earth Geography

Roots and Affixes The roots at the end of words are called

suffixes

Suffix Meaning Example-algia Pain Nostalgia-cule Very small Molecule-er, -or One who, That which Teacher,

Professor-ess Female Lioness-fy Make Beautify

Prefixes Knowing that the root “Ab-” means

“Away, apart from”, what can we say abnormal means? Away or apart from normal

Exoskeleton? Outside skeleton

Suffixes With suffixes, you may need to read it

backwards

Baker: One who bakes

Lioness: Female lion

Prefixes and Suffixes If you put both prefixes and suffixes

together, you can figure out the meaning of the whole word.

Geology “Geo-” means Earth “-logy” means study of Geology = study of Earth

Notice that we have to read the suffix before the prefix to figure

out the meaning!

We have discussed… First person point of view Third person point of view

Omniscient Omniscient limited

Context clues Prefixes Suffixes