Book Talk Tuesday

Readers make predictions based on what they

know about how stories tend to go.

Make a prediction about one of the book talk

books in your LA notebook.
Created by Heather Taxis Greene, 2010
 Making Predictions
Strategic readers think about what’s going to happen and make predictions
based on what they know and what they have read.

What Strategic Readers are Thinking: Sentence Starters for Response:

· What text and/or picture clues · I think this will be about _____ because...
can help me here? · I think _____ is going to happen next.
· What will this be about? · I predict that...
· What background knowledge do I have that · _____ makes me think that _____will
will help me with this text? happen.
· What will I learn? · I thought ____ was going to happen, but
· Were my predictions correct? _____ happened instead.
· How did making the prediction help me · I’m guessing this will be about___.
with this reading? · Since ____ happened, I think ___will happen.
· What will happen next? · My predictions were right/wrong because . . .

Created by Heather Taxis Greene, 2010

 Plot how stories tend to go
This is called a PLOT DIAGRAM

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 PLOT DIAGRAM
(and what stuff means)
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setting introduced
about the story or
"teases" another story
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 Licked
PLOT DIAGRAM for ____________ EXAMPLE
Name: _________________
(title) Date: __________________
Period: ____

Andrew licks
the fly
swatter
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Andrew drops soupy climax
Mr. Spinks
overhears his bread into his vomits
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Mr. Spinks slurps his
soup resolution
exposition setting:
fly swatter a
modern day, phony- it's
dinner time just candy

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 PLOT DIAGRAM for ____________ Name: _________________
(title) Date: __________________
Period: ____

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 PLOT DIAGRAM for ____________ Name: _________________
(title) Date: __________________
A subplot is a secondary plot strand that is a supporting side story for any story or the main plot.
Subplots may connect to main plots, in either time and place or in thematic significance.
Period: ____
Subplots are distinguished from the main plot by:
· taking up less of the action
· having less significant events occur
· occurring to less important characters.
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 Off You Go!
In your table group, read "Eleven."
Together, complete a plot diagram for
"Eleven."

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 Ticket Out
What makes sense about plot/plot diagrams?

What's confusing?

Created by Heather Taxis Greene, 2010