Understanding Informational Passages
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English
7th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Construct a multi-paragraph written response in which you make a claim about whether or not homework improves student achievement. Your response must be based on ideas that can be found in both passages.
Homework decreases student achievement because it causes students like me to lose sleep and be bored in class, like social studies.
Students have a lot of other things to do after school and should not have to do homework.
I do not think homework improves student achievement.
Homework increases student achievement because it involves practice of skills and gets students to remember topics better.
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.7
CCSS.RI.8.7
CCSS.RL.7.7
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.8.7
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A close examination and interpretation of a non-fiction (usually argumentative) work that analyzes how the author uses language, devices, and genre characteristics to create intended effects and persuade the reader.
Logical Fallacy
Rhetorical Analysis
Rhetorical Device
Key Ideas
3.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Text structures are the way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text. Which of the following are examples of types of text structures? (Choose three.)
Cause and effect
Compare and contrast
Sequence
Syntax
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
An author's purpose is the reason an author writes about a particular topic. What are the reasons an author writes?
Inquire
inform
research
entertain
persuade
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.6
CCSS.RI.7.9
CCSS.RI.8.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
An informational text presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate.
True
False
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
6.
DRAG AND DROP QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
(a) is when the speaker restates the meaning of something in different words.
Paraphrase
Synthesize
Summarize
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
7.
DROPDOWN QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that support a reader's claim, thought, inference, or analysis about a text is called (a)
text evidence.
digital text.
text structures.
credibility.
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.RI.7.8
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.7.1
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