Vocab: Informative/Explanatory Text

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Cause-effect: Dogs & young readers

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Some students feel nervous reading around people; reading to a dog makes them relaxed.

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Textual evidence is defined as:

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Ideas directly from the text.

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Textual evidence for dogs in schools:

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Through this program, teams of dogs and their handlers were sent to schools and libraries as reading companions for struggling kids.

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Textual example explaining why dogs should be used in the classroom:

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A. “If you’re practicing with a dog,” said a reading specialist, “you don’t mind making mistakes. You’ll probably correct it.”

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Textual example that does NOT explain why dogs are used in classrooms:

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B: "He is part of a program that began in Utah in 1999."

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Author's purpose in the article?

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Inform readers how dogs help students learn to read.

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Cause-effect: Dogs & young readers

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Some students feel nervous reading around people; reading to a dog helps them relax.

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He prefers to invite his entire class to the birthday party rather than ___________ anyone.

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exclude

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The ___________ in a football game is to score touchdowns.

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objective

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When the _____________ collaborates on a problem, it gets solved faster.

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community