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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="21d005a0dvldtc.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>PT3 Readers are Leaders</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0099FF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FF3300" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>|     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PT3 Readers are Leaders"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reading Aloud"><U>Reading Aloud</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Charts"><U>Charts</U></A>   |   <B>5W Questions</B>   |   <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Understanding other places "><U>Understanding other places  </U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#FFCC00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="18868c10.gif" border=0 width="104" height="193" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFCC00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> 5W Questions</div> <div> <B>Who, What, When, Where, Why Questions</B></div> <bR> <div> As you read, check your understanding with the following questions.</div> <div> 1.  Who is doing the action in this scene?  What do we already know about this person?</div> <div> (If the book has too many characters, you may want to do a list of characters with their main characteristics.)</div> <div> 2.  What is happened in this scene?</div> <div> 3.  When did it happen.  (If the book is confusing, you may want to do a timeline, putting the events in order.</div> <div> 4.  Where did it happen?</div> <div> 5.  Why did it happen?  Did a choice the characters made earlier cause this to happen?</div> <bR> <div>        In a newspaper, the first sentence of each article usually contains a sentence with all of this information.  This sentence is called a lead sentence.  Try to make up a sentence with all of this information that summarizes the main idea of the chapter or scene.</div> <div>       Summarizing a chapter into a lead sentence will help you remember it.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>