1. Miss Escano 5th Grade English
Understanding Text
Miss Escano
5th Grade
English

2. Objectives South Carolina Standards:
Students will be able to differentiate among the first-person, limited-omniscient (third person), and omniscient (third person) points of view.
Students will use context clues to generate the meanings of unfamiliar and multiple-meaning words.
Students will use Greek and Latin roots and affixes to determine the meanings of words within texts.
South Carolina Standards:
5-1.2, 5-3.1, 5-3.2

3. Review― Point of View What is first-person?
Writing using “I” and “we”
Something we read that was in first person:
“My name is Peak. Yeah, I know: weird name. But you don’t get to pick your name or your parents. (Or a lot of other things in life for that matter.)”

4. Third Person Limited Omniscient Omniscient
The narrator can see into the minds of some of the characters, but not all. They usually see through the eyes of the main character.
Omniscient
The narrator is all-knowing, can interpret events and relate the thoughts and feelings of any character.

5. Understanding Text Context Clues Let’s try a few…
Sometimes the meaning to a word is in the text around it.
You have to read the text before and after the word to figure it out.
Let’s try a few…

6. Context Clues
The first review on the movie was favorable. Many people attended and enjoyed the movie. Some people even saw the movie three times!
Negative
Uncertain
Positive
Clear

7. Context Clues
Her quiet, timid ways made us guess at her true feelings about the story because she kept her ideas to herself and never spoke in class.
Shy
Boisterous
Kind
Seriously

8. Roots and Affixes Another way to find the meaning of words
The roots at the beginning of a word are called prefixes
Prefix
Meaning
Example
Ab-
Apart, Away from
Abnormal
Bible-
Book
Bibliography
Circum-
Around
Circumference
Ex-
Outside
Exterior
Geo-
Earth
Geography

9. Roots and Affixes The roots at the end of words are called suffixes
Meaning
Example
-algia
Pain
Nostalgia
-cule
Very small
Molecule
-er, -or
One who, That which
Teacher, Professor
-ess
Female
Lioness
-fy
Make
Beautify

10. Prefixes
Knowing that the root “Ab-” means “Away, apart from”, what can we say abnormal means?
Away or apart from normal
Exoskeleton?
Outside skeleton

11. Suffixes With suffixes, you may need to read it backwards Baker:
One who bakes
Lioness:
Female lion

12. Prefixes and Suffixes
If you put both prefixes and suffixes together, you can figure out the meaning of the whole word.
Geology
“Geo-” means Earth
“-logy” means study of
Geology = study of Earth
Notice that we have to read the suffix before the prefix to figure out the meaning!

13. We have discussed… First person point of view
Third person point of view
Omniscient
Omniscient limited
Context clues
Prefixes
Suffixes