Parmele

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Parmele

• By Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little

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Word Knowledge
Gas station firefighter punching bag
Laugh enough tough
Narrow fellow grow
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Comprehension Strategies

• Making Connections
• Clarifying
• Visualizing

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Comprehension Skills
Main Idea and Details The main idea is what a
paragraph or passage is mostly about, while
details give more information about the main
idea. The main idea can be found in either the
first or last sentence of a paragraph.
One thing that we saw on the road frightened me.
Chain gangs. What are some details that support
this main idea?
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Comprehension Skills

• Discussing the Selection
• What does this selection tell us about the
  authors heritage?

• How important is family to the author?

• What are some differences and similarities
  between your family and Eloise Greenfields
  family?

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

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Publishing a Personal Narrative
Writing can be published in a variety of ways

• It can be displayed on a bulletin board
• It can be made into a book by putting the pages
  between covers.
• It can be collected with other pieces of writing
  and published in an anthology.
• It can be submitted for publication to a local
  newspaper or national magazine
• It can be published in a school newspaper
• It can be read aloud to the class or another group

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Autobiography
An autobiography tells the story of the authors
life, while a biography is about someone elses
life.

• What kinds of people write autobiographies?

• Who might be interested in reading such books?

• What autobiographies have you read? Why did you
  read it? What did you learn from reading about
  that persons life?

• Might someone your age write an autobiography?

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Using a Dictionary or Glossary
A dictionary is used to clarify the spelling,
pronunciation, usage, and definition of words it
is arranged in alphabetical order and it has
guide words.
Your Student Anthology glossary shares all of
these characteristics, although it will only give
the meaning and part of speech of a word as it is
used in you books selections.
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Commas in a Series
A comma is used to set off and separate words and
groups of words.
Practice cats dogs
Carrots tomatoes turnips
Tennis basketball football volleyball
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Verbal and Nonverbal messages
Multimedia Presentations