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Course: 3rd grade reading & vocabulary > Unit 3
Lesson 3: Close reading: fiction- Summarizing stories | Reading
- Understanding theme | Reading
- Characters' thoughts and feelings | Reading
- A story's point of view | Reading
- Reading (and comparing) multiple books | Reading
- Extreme Environments: reading realistic fiction; The Adventures of Fisher 3
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Reading (and comparing) multiple books | Reading
You know what's better than reading a book? Reading TWO BOOKS. Let's talk about how books and stories relate to one another, how book series work, and what you can learn from comparing stories from around the world.
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- What is writing style and how do I identify it in texts?(14 votes)
- Writing style is how an author uses words to tell a story. It includes the words they choose, how they put sentences together, and the feelings they create. To identify it, look for patterns in how the author writes. Do they use lots of fancy words? Are their sentences long or short? Is the story funny, sad, or exciting? These clues help you figure out the author's style.(3 votes)
- Question:
Is I survived a series? It is all about people surviving the impossible but the characters aren’t all the same. Ex: one book could have jake and another could have jack. So is it a series?
Thanks(5 votes)- Generally, a book series has the same characters (or at least some of the same characters) that appear throughout each book in the series. The books' plot (or storyline) also relate to one another.
However, books with different characters but a similar plot or topic can also be considered a series. "I Survived" is a series because all the books share a common theme—people surviving big, historical events. The author's website also refers to the books as a series.(2 votes)
- How do you even use a type writer?(3 votes)
- A type righter is like a computer. You know that computers have keys. When you press a key in google, you can see the letter at the top. A typewriter works the same way but with paper. You press a key and ink comes out of these things and it uses ink and prints the letter or number onto the paper(7 votes)
- At0:56, can the main character change in a series?(4 votes)
- Yes, the main character can change in a series! Sometimes, a series might start with one main character and then introduce a new main character in later books. Other times, different books in the series might focus on different characters from the same world or story.(2 votes)
- who is in class right now(2 votes)
- what is a typewriter(1 vote)
- A very old kind of mechanical keyboard. It’s not usually used nowadays.(2 votes)
- I want a typewriter.(1 vote)
- jax19,i know how to use a type writer,you just click clack on the keys,like computer,but not with a screen.hope this helped(1 vote)
- cool help he too how do i stay nice(0 votes)
Video transcript
- [David] Hello readers. You know what's better
than reading a book? Reading two books. Reading a bunch of books. Reading a mountain of books. This may sound self-evident, but great readers read a lot of books. Good readers read widely. They read lots of
different types of books. Sometimes these books will be similar, and sometimes they'll be very different, but one thing that good readers do is think about how what they are reading might connect with other books
they've read in the past. They think about how books
connect with other books. I have been reading a lot this year. Mostly cookbooks, mysteries
and science fiction novels, so they're alike in some
ways and different in others. Right now, I'm reading
these mystery novels that take place in Australia. They're all written by the same person and they all feature the
same main characters. A collection of books that
are about the same character in different situations
is called a series. Reading a series is a great way to see how the same
characters grow and change over a longer period of time. There's the hero of the series with a fabulous feather in her hair and a magnifying glass ready
to solve some mysteries. Now not all books by the same author are automatically part of the same series. Authors can write standalone books or start completely different series. Here's the author hard
at work on a typewriter, an ancient writing device. If you don't know what that is, politely ask an older person. Often, writers have a
similar writing style even when what they're
writing is not connected. For example, if you like funny books, and you find an author
that makes you laugh, chances are that the
other books they write could also be funny. Books can have similar plots. So the series I've been
reading is a mystery. The main character is a detective and she figures out how and
why someone committed a crime. After many years of reading, I've learned that I really like books that share this quality, of a hero that solves mysteries. But, just because two
books are both mysteries doesn't mean they're going
to work the same way. Two mysteries by two different writers with different characters and situations are going to be pretty
different from each other. As a reader, I have to
be careful not to assume that I know where a book is going to go just because I'm familiar with what kind of story it's telling. It's like fairytales, right? Every culture around the
world has traditional stories and those stories all pretty
much have the same purpose which is to teach people how
to behave like a good person. There are stories all around the world that have a similar structure
to the story of Cinderella. Young, poor girl with an evil stepmother, unfairly punished and then through magic and the goodness of her own
heart, she marries into royalty. There are thousands of
versions of this story from every culture on Earth. I love reading stories
from all over the world because it helps me understand the values that different cultures share or how they differ. This is why it's fun
to read lots of stories from different times and different people. It can help us understand
what's important to people, what was important to people in the past, or what's important to us now, and it's fun. Reading lots of books is fun. You might find an author or
a character that you love. You might be transported to
a whole new land or time. Reading widely and thinking
about how books connect is the best way to become a better reader, and you might just solve a mystery or two while you're at it. You can learn anything, David out.