Analyzing Claims Makeup Exam

What is a claim?

• Facts that are easily checked out

• An idea, opinion or belief that people may disagree on

• A song

• A statement that everyone knows is true.

What must authors include when making a claim to convince their readers to believe the claim?

What must authors include in their text when making a claim so that readers can believe the claim?

• sentence fragments

• reasons and evidence

• dialogue

• opinions

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

Which sentence supports the claim, "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

• Some people do not like to eat breakfast.

• Cooking is hard work.

• Many people all over the world eat different types of breakfast.

• Eating breakfast gives us the energy we need to start our day right.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

What is the first step to analyzing a claim?

• Decide if the evidence given by the author supports the claim.

• Identify the claim.

• Find the evidence the author gives to support the claim.

• Find the unnecessary things in the article.

When analyzing a claim, the first step is locating the author's claim. What do you do next?

• Decide if the evidence given supports the claim.

• Decide if you like the claim or not.

• Identify the evidence the author gives to support the claim.

• Decide if the evidence is unnecessary or not.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

What is the last step to analyzing a claim?

• Decide if the evidence the author gives supports the claim.

• Identify the claim.

• Locate the evidence that supports the claim.

• There is no such thing as analyzing a claim

What do conjunctions do?

• Shows the action in the sentence

• Describes and gives more information about a noun in the sentence

• Introduces important ideas in a sentence

• Connects or joins ideas and words in a sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

All of these words are conjunctions except which one?

• but

• pan

• and

• or

• because

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which one of these words is a conjunction?

• but

• where

• run

• why

• me

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A