The Night JourneyThe Night Journey

By Kathryn LaskyBy Kathryn Lasky

Word KnowledgeWord Knowledge

Lambent Luminous stony inexorable

Short sharp shutters sheer

Cackle chicken clucking thickness

Comprehension StrategiesComprehension Strategies

1. Summarizing

2. Asking Questions

3. Making Connections

Comprehension SkillsComprehension Skills

Drawing Conclusions

Good readers draw conclusions from the clues in the text to make statements about he characters, things, and events in a story.

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Is the family excited to receive a gift for the whole family?

Comprehension SkillsComprehension Skills

Author’s Point of ViewThe author’s point of view is how an author chooses to tell a story.

Different Types:

First Person – Story told through Character’s eyesThird Person – Story told by character outside of the story

In this story, from whose point of view is the author mostly writing?

Comprehension SkillsComprehension Skills

• What is Rache Learning about her heritage form Nana Sashie in these stories?

• What might have happened to the family if they hadn’t been able to escape?

• Why did Wolf risk his life to help the family?

• How has this selection connected with your knowledge of the Heritage theme?

Discussing the Selection

WritingWritingUsing and Punctuating Dialogue• Use quotation marks (“ ”) to set off a speaker’s exact words. If the speaker is named before the quotation, put a comma before the opening quotation marks.

Cindy said, “I hope we are having pizza for lunch.”

• Start each quotation with a capital letter. When the spoken part ends, put a punctuation mark inside the closing quotation marks.

“Michael is a hard worker, “ Mr. Philips said. “He studies every evening after basketball practice.”

• Begin a new paragraph with each new speaker

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Literary Elements of a StoryLiterary Elements of a Story

• Plot: beginning, middle, and end of a story

• Characters: the people, animals, or things the story is about

• Setting: the time and place in which the story happens

• Point of view: who is telling the story

Words in ContextsWords in Contexts

Good readers use context clues and their own experiences to help them understand phrases with figurative language or words with multiple meanings.

• Figurative language phrases have vivid, descriptive words that have no literal meaning.

• Multiple-meaning words have more than one meaning

Capitalizing TitlesCapitalizing Titles

The first word and all important words in a title are capitalized. Words such as a, the, in, and of are not. This rule applies to books, short stories, and magazine titles.

the day the elephants danced

a story from my heart

a friend to lean on

Language Reflecting a Region and CultureLanguage Reflecting a Region and Culture

How does the author indicate the culture and region from which the characters in the story come?

• Names

• Food

• Traditions

Study and Research

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