SANTILLANA USA - Anthology Sampler

9 aa 5 Fantasy and Reality Fantasy is something that could not happen in real life. Reality is everything that is real or authentic. A fantasy may be a story that includes make-believe characters such as talking animals, while a realistic story may tell about something that could happen in real life. Help students identify stories they may know that are fantasies and stories they may know that are realistic. Ask students if the selection they are reading is realistic or if it is a fantasy. Have them identify details or examples from the selection that are make- believe or realistic. Main Idea and Details The main idea is the most important point the author makes in a story or paragraph. In a paragraph, the main idea is often contained in a topic sentence at the beginning or at the end of the paragraph. In order to support the main idea, authors use details in other sentences that may describe, give reasons and definitions, and give other types of information. Help students to identify the main idea and details of some of the paragraphs in the selection. Making Inferences We make inferences when we use clues from the reading and what we already know to figure out something that is not directly stated or explained in the reading. Have students make inferences about the characters or events in the selection. Retelling Retelling is when a reader tells the story in her or his own words. Retelling provides the reader with the opportunity to process what she/he has read by organizing and explaining it to others. Retelling can be used for a paragraph, section, or for the entire selection. Have students retell the selection by helping them to organize the events of the selection. Sequence Sequence is the order of events in a story. Understanding in which order events take place in a story is essential to forming ideas and opinions about a story. Words and phrases such as primero , después , luego , finalmente , al día siguiente , mañana , and so on, often signal order of events and time in a story. Help students to identify order of events in the selection by having them identify time and order words or phrases. Summarizing When we determine the most important events or ideas in a text, we are summarizing . Summarizing helps us to learn how to determine essential ideas and to consolidate important details that support them. Summarizing can be used with paragraphs, sections, or for the entire selection. Help students to summarize the selection by asking them to identify the most important events or ideas of the selection. Program Overview