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Reading Skills for Third Nine Weeks
 
Read, identify and compare characteristics of various genres: 
nonfiction, poetry and short stories
Fiction
Short stories
Plays
Analyzing similar themes in different texts
Identifying and analyzing plot structure
     (action, foreshadowing, climax)
Analyzing characterization (dynamic and static) in prose and
     plays through characters' thoughts, words and
     actions and narrator's descriptions
 
Non-fiction 
Analyzing organizational patterns of texts:  compare/contrast and  
     argue/support
Sythesize and use knowledge of common graphic features to draw
     conclusions and make judgements (use captions)
 
Poetry
Explain and analyze effects of sound (alliteration, onomatopoeia,
     internal rhyme, rhyme scheme) and figurative language (simile,
     metaphor, personification, hyperbole)