RP 6B L1: Recognizing Persuasive Devices

RP 6B L1:

Recognizing Persuasive Devices

Multiple Choice

Exercise is fun to do! It’s great for you too. It makes your body strong. It can put you in a better mood. You will feel happy and calm. When you exercise, you are being active. You are moving your body in some way. Many people do not get enough exercise. We can do a better job of moving our bodies. The best day to start doing more exercise is today.

1. What is the author trying to convince you to do?

• A. read more about exercise

• B. do more exercise

• C. teach someone to exercise

• D. do less exercise

Open Ended

Exercise is fun to do! It’s great for you too. It makes your body strong. It can put you in a better mood. You will feel happy and calm. When you exercise, you are being active. You are moving your body in some way. Many people do not get enough exercise. We can do a better job of moving our bodies. The best day to start doing more exercise is today.

What are three reasons or examples that the author provides as support for this opinion?

Multiple Choice

I don’t think Bigfoot is a real being. I think it is just a story. We would have found its hair. We would have found its bones. We would have found its teeth. It is odd that so many people say they have seen Bigfoot. Yet no one has found any true, hard proof. People who say they have seen Bigfoot must be making up stories.

3. What is the author trying to convince you to believe?

• A. Bigfoot has no teeth.

• B. Bigfoot has been seen by many people.

• C. Bigfoot is not real.

• D. Bigfoot is covered with hair.

Open Ended

I don’t think Bigfoot is a real being. I think it is just a story. We would have found its hair. We would have found its bones. We would have found its teeth. It is odd that so many people say they have seen Bigfoot. Yet no one has found any true, hard proof. People who say they have seen Bigfoot must be making up stories.

4. What are three reasons or examples that the author provides as support for this opinion?

Poll

I can recognize an opinion (also called argument, position, or stance) in a given passage.

• Always

• Sometimes

• Never

Poll

I can cite evidence (reasons or examples) to support my answer.

• Always

• Sometimes

• Never