3.2 Language Workshop

3.2 Language Workshop

Language Objectives

• Read an informational text to enhance and confirm knowledge about the history of news.

• Use a graphic organizer to practice identifying cause-and-effect text structures.

• Use cause-and-effect signal words to write a summary of the changes technology has brought to the news.

Preview Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

What does the word efficient mean?

• the inability to get something done

• to do something the hardest way possible

• able to get something done with the least time and effort

• to do something with the help of another person

Multiple Choice

What does the word drastically mean?

• greatly

• calmly

• quickly

• slowly

Multiple Choice

What does the word political mean?

• relating to education

• relating to social issues

• relating to criminal justice

• relating to politics or

  government

Multiple Choice

What does the word impending mean?

• about to happen

• already happened

• will happen

Multiple Choice

What does the word circulation mean?

• the availability of something

• the number of newspapers or magazines sold during a certain period of time

• an organ system in your body

Multiple Choice

What does the word coverage mean?

• to cover something up

• a blanketing effect

• the reporting or broadcasting of events

Multiple Choice

What does the word aspects mean?

• features or characteristics of something

• time it takes to accomplish a task

• a photography term

Read and Annotate

• Read “From Newspapers to Social Media” and annotate the text as you read.

• Use the My Notes area to write any questions or ideas you have about the informational text.

• Underline words or phrases that show an effect and put a box around words or phrases that tell the cause.

• Circle unknown words or phrases

“From Newspapers to Social Media”

• Read “From Newspapers to Social Media” and annotate the text as you read.

• Use the My Notes area to write any questions or ideas you have about the

  informational text.

• Underline words or phrases that show an effect and put a box around words or phrases that tell the cause.

• Circle unknown words or phrases.

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Turn and talk

Turn to your partner and retell information from the text. Use images

and text features to help you remember details.

Reading Closely to Identify Cause and Effect

• “From Newspapers to Social Media” describes the evolution of the news industry as technology changed over time. Reread the parts of the informational text that you annotated and complete the graphic organizer that follows. 

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Closure

• Explain how technology has changed the way people produce and receive news. Be sure to include language that shows cause-and-effect relationships.

• HINT: Cause and Effect Signal Words. A cause is why something happens. An effect is what happens as the result of a

  cause. When you write about causes and effects, use words that signal cause-and effect relationships.

• Cause: because, as, for, since, due to

  Effect: as a result, therefore, thus, then, so