Paired Passage Review

Textual Evidence

• To cause a character to act in a certain way

• Visual representations of data

• The details in the text that support the claim or an opinion

• A converstation between two or more people

Organizational Patterns

• The pattern the author uses to organize his or her ideas:

• For what reason did the author write the passage.

• Visual representation of data

• A story of connected events

ALWAYS read the directions to ensure that you are using the correct passage for the questions you are trying to answer.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• What directions?

• Only for the Writing STAAR

What is nonfiction / informational?

• a true story that provides information

• a fictional story with made-up characters

• a fantasy novel

• a science fiction book

In a paired passage, you must

• focus on comparing and contrasting the two passages

• only read the first passage

• only read the second passage

• ignore the questions

A paired passage is...

• two passages about a similar topic

• two passages from different genres

• a single passage with multiple authors

• a passage and a poem

Which of the following things you should NOT do when you are reading paired passages?

• Read passage 1 . Then answer the questions to passage 2.

• Read passage 2 . Then answer the questions to passage 1.

• Make connections to both passages.

• Skip reading the passages and directly answer the questions.

Genres that you may encounter on a paired passage include...

• fiction + poem

• nonfiction (informational) + drama

• poem + nonfiction

• drama + drama

What is a drama?

• a story written to be performed

• a type of poetry

• a nonfiction book

• a historical fiction novel

A paired passage is important because

• you can get information about the same topic through different genres and subgenres

• it makes reading more difficult

• it confuses the reader

• it is unnecessary