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Informational Text

Essential Question for Unit 1: How do journeys change us? What motivates people to leave a place they call home?  Complete a Quick Write

Open Ended

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Purpose: To give information about a topic or explain a concept.

Elements:

Main ideas are the topics most important ideas.

Details support or tell more about the main ideas.

Text features offer clues to main ideas.

Text Structure:

Cause and Effect

Compare and Contrast

Problem and Solution

Chronological or time order

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People who belong to a particular place?

• Member

• Group

• Citizen

• Student

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What is an agreeable situation or chance?

• opportunity

• job

• commitment

• recommend

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A series of steps in a legal action?

• directions

• sequence

• instructions

• processing

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Granted access to a place?

• entrance

• admitted

• welcome

• permitted

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The act of moving to a new country to live there?

• relocating

• immigration

• trip

• vacation