Paragraph Types

What type of paragraph should a writer use to convince someone to learn more about genetically modified food?

• a cause-effect paragraph

• a persuasive paragraph

• a comparison paragraph

What type of paragraph should a writer use to explain the differences between genetically modified rice and regular rice?

• a cause-effect paragraph

• a persuasive paragraph

• a comparison paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What type of paragraph should a writer use to show what genetically modified potatoes look and taste like?

• a descriptive paragraph

• a persuasive paragraph

• a comparison paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What type of paragraph should a writer use to show the effects genetically modified rice has on children who eat it?

• a descriptive paragraph

• a persuasive paragraph

• a cause-effect paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Choose the sentence that is most likely from a cause-effect paragraph.

• Farmers should not be allowed to grow genetically modified food.

• Insects are less likely to destroy genetically modified crops as a result.

• The food science laboratory is clean, white, and very spacious.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

The opinion/impression about a person, a thing, a place, an animal, an idea, etc is the controlling idea of ...

• descriptive paragraph

• process paragraph

• logical division paragraph

• comparison/contrast paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A paragraph that talks only about the differences between two things is called ...

• a comparison paragraph

• a contrast paragraph

• a comparison/contrast paragraph

• a logical division paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

In a descriptive paragraph, the organization of the paragraph should be written based on ...

• spatial order

• specific details

• point-by-point

• the steps/procedures

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

TWO sentence connectors used in a process paragraph are ...

• Then

• Finally

• The final step . . .

• After five minutes,

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

In comparison/contrast paragraphs, the method of organization in which the similarity and difference are written based on each sub-topic belongs to ...

• block organization

• point-by-point organization

• free organization

• limited organization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3