Fall Final Review

Supporting details are...

• Are the main details of an article

• Details that support the main idea: Expert opinions, personal anecdotes, facts/ stats

• Irrelevant information that just makes the story longer

• The central idea

Claim:

• The reasons and evidence you use to support why you are for or against something or someone

  
  

• A statement that tells the reader or audience which side of the argument you are on.

• Acknowledging the value of one of your opponent’s claims 

• Facts, data, quotes from experts or reliable sources that support your reasons. They show that your reasons are correct and make sense!

What is the text structure in this writing:
_{First, you get the bread. Then, you get the jelly and peanut butter. Then, you get a butter knife and spread the jelly and peanut butter on separate pieces of bread. Lastly, put the two slices of bread together and BOOM! You got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.}

• Sparkle

• Sequence

• Similar

• Describing

Volunteering is a very rewarding experience. There are many ways you can volunteer. For example, you can help clean up a playground. Volunteering benefits other people and also will make you feel good about yourself.

• The author's purpose is to convince you to become a volunteer.

• The author's purpose is to explain all the aspects of volunteering.

• The author's purpose is to entertain you with a story about volunteering.

• The author's purpose is to inform you about the opportunities and rewards of volunteering.

What is the text structure used

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Description

• Problem and solution

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Supporting details

What is the author's purpose for writing this article?

• To persuade that bees are important

• Too inform how bees impact the world

• To inform the negative effects of bees

• To entertain like the bee movie.

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Main ideas

Tone is...

• How I feel reading the text

• The author's attitude

• How the main character feels

• How the supporting character feels

It's important to go to school. What you learn in school will help you later in life. It will also help you get a job. If you work hard in school and make good grades, you may be able to go to college and have a career.

What is the author's purpose?

• to entertain with a story about school

• to persuade you to work hard in school

• to teach you how to get good grades

• to explain the best colleges

Key words include caused by, effect, reason, because and as a result.

• Comparison

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Sequential

If you don’t know the correct spelling of a word-

• Guess and hope for the best

• Use a thesaurus

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• Sound it out