Main Body
Storytelling Goes Digital
Learning Goals
In this chapter, you will learn to:
- Use your own experience to decide if information is accurate
- Use the affixes extra-, -or, -tion, and -al
- Identify cause and effect
- Discuss and respond to the digital story All the Truly Important Things
- Recognize the sequence of events
- Identify the subject and verb in a sentence
- Use pronouns correctly
- Write an opinion paragraph
Get Ready to Read
- How did you experience stories as a child? How is this different from the way that children today experience stories?
- What is your favourite way to experience a story: in person or through books, TV, radio, or video games?
- We need stories that are windows into new worlds as well as mirrors of our own worlds. Do you think that there are enough stories that mirror, or reflect, your cultural background and experiences?
Vocabulary
Readers sometimes scan a text for specific information rather than reading every word. When you scan a text, choose a word to look for. Then run your eyes quickly over many lines to find that word.
Scan Storytelling Goes Digital to find a bold word for each of the following.
1. A way of seeing and understanding the world
2. An extremely small living thing that can spread from one animal to another and can cause illness
3. Connected to the Internet
4. Normal or usual
5. Someone who has a lot of experience using a skill for their job
6. Something that is created by people
7. The part or job someone has in a family, community, or group
8. To cause two or more things to be together
9. To say something out loud for an audience
10. To show respect for someone or something
Word Patterns
extra– is a prefix that means “beyond”
–or is a suffix that means “one who”
–tion is a suffix that means “the act of”
–al is a suffix that means “related to”
Use the vocabulary words and affixes above to build a word for each definition below.
11. ___________________________: one who invents
12. ___________________________: related to a virus
13. ___________________________: the act of combining
14. ___________________________: beyond ordinary
Reading Strategy
Readers check their understanding of a text while they read. In this book, you will practice strategies for checking whether you are really thinking about the words on a page. One strategy is to stop after each paragraph and ask yourself: Can I picture what the text is describing, like a movie playing in my mind? If you can’t picture it, then go back and try to visualize as you re-read the paragraph. If you like to draw, you can even doodle the pictures you see in your mind in the space beside the paragraph.
Try this strategy as you read Storytelling Goes Digital.
Check Your Understanding
1. A cause is a reason something happens. An effect is what happens. People invented the printing press, radio, and television. Name three effects of these inventions.
2. What three examples of professional storytellers are mentioned in the text?
3. What is a