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Review: Read Stories, Speech and Rhyming Lines

Apply tell speaking from narration, notice a sense detail, find a rhyme at line endings, distinguish fantasy and ordinary events using supplied texts and original responses.

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Unit review questions
1. Title: The Tree. A dog said, "I hear buzzing." Verse: A little bee / Flies past the tree. Which choice reproduces a character’s direct speech from this text?
Need a hint?
  • Quotation marks enclose speech.
  • The words said Mia are a speaker tag.
2. Title: The Tree. A dog said, "I hear buzzing." Verse: A little bee / Flies past the tree. Which sense is most directly used in the supplied detail?
Need a hint?
  • Ringing is a sound detail.
  • A bright color is seen, not smelled.
3. Title: The Tree. A dog said, "I hear buzzing." Verse: A little bee / Flies past the tree. Which pair of ending words rhymes in the supplied verse?
Need a hint?
  • Compare sounds after the first consonant.
  • Same first letter is not required.
4. Title: The Tree. A dog said, "I hear buzzing." Verse: A little bee / Flies past the tree. Which feature makes the supplied scene fantasy?
Need a hint?
  • Fiction and fantasy are not identical.
  • A story about an animal is not automatically fantasy.

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Use the skills in a new task

Make a short complete response demonstrating the four skills in this unit. Write or dictate two original rhyming lines ending in rain and train. Add one sight detail. Write one quotation a character says, with an adult helping punctuation. Explain whether the event is ordinary fiction or fantasy using an actual action. Longer writing targets in optional extensions can be completed in a later session.

Work on paper or in your own document. Explain the choices you made.

  • Find the opening and closing quotation marks. Read only those words as the character voice, then identify the tag separately.
  • Find the describing words. Ask which sense would notice that detail in the scene.
  • Read the line endings aloud and compare their vowel and final sounds. Name the actual matching pair.
  • Find the specific action that exceeds everyday possibilities. If no such action is supplied, do not add one.
Compare with a model response

My verse is: I watch the silver rain; / It taps beside the train. Rain and train rhyme. Silver is a sight detail. My prose dialogue is: "I hear the rain," Jo said. Only the words inside quotation marks are direct speech. This scene is ordinary invented fiction because a child can watch rain; no talking object, speaking animal or unaided flight is supplied.

A different response can also meet the criteria. Compare the evidence and reasoning, rather than copying the wording.