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Reading Medicine Labels
Reading Nutrition Labels
p. 26b
- Define new vocabulary from context
Each week, you will read a chapter in a book and try to complete the exercises at the end. Highlight and/or take notes of new words in the text. Guess their meaning. Then, look them up in a dictionary and check to see if they're on Quizlet.
How To Summarize
- Read and retell events of a story
Story Mapping or Story Grammar means the parts of a story or plot. Most stories have:
- a setting = a place, where the story or part of the story takes place
- characters = the people and/or animals in the story
- conflict = a problem that the characters have
- resolution = how the problem is solved
If you explain these parts of the story, you can usually summarize it.
Online Story Map
Online Plot Diagram
Online Timeline
Online Graphic Map
How to find the Main Idea
After you summarize the story, think about the following questions:
- What is this chapter or story mostly about?
- What do you think is the most important part of the story or chapter?
- Who, where, what is it mostly about?
- If you had to tell someone else about what happened in one sentence, what would you say?