The document provides information about identifying key ideas, concepts, and viewpoints in texts. It discusses what key ideas, concepts, and viewpoints are and gives examples from three books: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Do Your Ears Hang Low?, and Green Eggs and Ham. It then asks and answers questions about the key ideas and concepts within each book.

1. Identify and categorize key ideas,
concepts and perspectives found in
texts.

2. What are key ideas?
Pick the parts that are important to you
What are Concepts?
Different relationships within the book.
What are View Points?
Different options found in the book.

3. Where is it?
How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Green Eggs and Ham

4.  Doyou know what
the key ideas are?
 Theanswers on
next page.

5.  Did you guess what the key idea is?
 Ifyou thought that the bunny trying to find
his carrots was the key idea, then you were
right!
 How do we know it was the key idea?
 Throughout the book we kept seeing the
word “it” which refers to the carrots.

6.  Hewas asking/thinking a lot of different
questions about where the carrot was.
 If you keep looking you will find
 Look for key words

7.  How do you think the bunny felt looking for
the carrot?
 The bunny may have felt lost and confused
 And the view point of the bunny was that he
didn’t know where his carrots were at.
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8.  Why did the Grinch
want to stile
Christmas?
 Theanswer is on
the next page!!

9.  The Grinch was an angry man and he didn’t
like to see the people of Who-ville happy
with joy
 The Grinch wanted everyone to be as mean
as him.
 But once he saw the true meaning of
Christmas then he became happy and full of
joy as well as the people from Who-Ville.

10.  Ifthe people of Who-Ville are as mean as him
then the Grinch would not have to stay in a
cave at the top of mountain by himself.
 Taking the gifts from the people would make
him happy and the people of Who-ville sad.
 Understanding the true meaning of Christmas
made the Grinch and the people of Who-ville
happy again

11.  The Grinch was angry
 The purpose of the people in Who-Ville was
to show the true meaning of Christmas and
what it has to offer.
 And Christmas was a good time to celebrate
with others and sharing is caring.
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12.  What can the dogs
long ears do?
 Theanswer is on
the next page!

13.  Their ears can wobble and do lots of things
 Their ears can go high, low, up, down, back
and front

14.  The dogs ears can do many things
 And only long ears can do the things they do
in the book.

15.  Dogs with long ears its possible that they can
do anything they want them to do.
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17.  Why didn’t he
want the green
eggs and ham?
 Answer on next
page!!

18.  No matter where he was his friend was trying
to get him to try the green eggs and ham.
 But he didn’t want to try them.
 But at the end he ended up really enjoying
them.

19.  Don’t judge a book by its cover: which means
you should always keep an open mind until
you have tried something new.
 Be open to try new things
 Don’t knock it until you try it!

20.  He was positive that he would not like the
green eggs and ham and didn’t want to try
them.
 His friend wanted him to try the green eggs
and ham because he wanted his friend to
experience the goodness of the green eggs
and ham.
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