Reading Terms Stamp Collection

Objective: Students will create a booklet that contains stamps reviewing terms. 

Patterns of Organization: cause and effect, compare and contrast, chronological, problem and solution, sequence/process, and spatial/descriptive.  

Genre: fiction, nonfiction, informational writing, folklore, poetry, drama, autobiography, biography, fable, fiction, fairy tale, myth, historical fiction, science fiction, and tall tale.

Poetry Features: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, understatement, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, repetition, rhyme, and consonance.

Story Structure: rising action, falling action, climax, resolution, setting, and conflict.

Point of View: first-person, second-person, third-person limited, third-person objective, and third-person omniscient.

Requirements:

1.  Your book should have four pages.
2.  Each page should have four stamps.
3.  Each stamp should have a definition or example and a related picture.

Each page is on one topic 

Each stamp has a title 

And a picture 

An example or definition 

Four stamps on a page 

And a total of four pages (16 stamps)

Poetry Features

Simile

The cloud was as soft as a pillow

	
Metaphor
The pillow was a cloud.	

Personification

The sun refused to shine.

	

Understatement

I’ll be there in one second.	

	

Genre and Subgenre

Historical Fiction

Writing based on a  person or event from history.	

Science Fiction

	

Fable

	

Fiction

	

	

Rubric

Completion	                    One or two pages done     Missing examples or pictures     Missing one page	                    Complete
0 --------- 1 --------- 2 --------- 3 -------- 4 -------- 5 -------- 6 -------- 7 -------- 8 -------- 9 --------- 10

Information                Didn’t do it         Many examples are incorrect or unoriginal            A few mistakes	                        Perfect
0 --------- 1 --------- 2 --------- 3 -------- 4 -------- 5 -------- 6 -------- 7 -------- 8 -------- 9 --------- 10

Effort          Incomplete                       Very sloppy and thrown together                Started off nice but got sloppy at the end	 Good job!
0 --------- 1 --------- 2 --------- 3 -------- 4 -------- 5 -------- 6 -------- 7 -------- 8 -------- 9 --------- 10

Bonus        This is going on the board!  You didn’t have to do all that.
0 --------- 1 --------- 2 --------- 3 -------- 4 -------- 5