Before Reading Strategies

Story Elements

Pick whether you will read “The Landlady” (Elements of Literature 171) or “The Monkey’s Paw (McDougal Littell 360).

Before Reading Strategies Directions: Complete the four P’s for the story you chose below: Preview Title: ______Details in pictures: ______Names of People: ______Names of Places: ______Vocabulary words/Footnotes at the bottom of the pg: ______Words, Phrases or Quotes that stick out: ______

Predict what the story will be about based on your preview: ______

Prior Knowledge What do you know about the author? (If you don’t know anything, flip to the Meet the Writer section at the end of the story and write some facts you learn from reading it). ______

List anything else you know about the topics you identified in your preview: ______Purpose: Your purpose for reading will be to make inferences and predictions as you read. After reading, you’ll determine the Story Elements including foreshadowing. Active Reading Strategies: Predict and Infer, Identify Foreshadowing Directions:  As you read, please stop and make an inference or prediction.  Use the two-column chart style we used as we listened to the “Tell-Tale Heart”.  Make at least one inference or prediction per page (8 total).  You may also stop and write a detail with your thought if you think something in the text is foreshadowing what might come later. Text (quote or paraphrase; include author’s last name & page number) Prediction, Inference or Foreshadowing Text (quote or paraphrase; include author’s last name & page number) Prediction, Inference or Foreshadowing

After Reading: The endings of both “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Landlady” are both a little unclear (not lucid). The authors do not directly state what happens at the end. You have to use all the clues you gathered while you were reading to figure out what actually happens. Below, explain what the author implies at the end. Use at least two details from the story to defend your answer. ______