Nonfiction Notice & Note Signposts

When you are reading and the author uses a word or phrase you don’t know. This is a

• Contrast and contradiction

• Absolute language

• Word gap

• Quoted Words

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CCSS.L.4.4A

When you are reading and notice the author quoted a Voice of Authority, a Personal Perspective, or cited Other’s Words this is a

• Contrast and contradiction

• Word Gap

• Absolute Language

• Quoted Words

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.8

Authors used quoted words to . . .

• Help you think about the author’s point of view, purpose, bias, or conclusions.

• Give perspective, facts and opinions, or a generalization

• Give credibility to their claim

• All of the Above

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.8

When you are reading and you notice specific numbers, number words or amounts the author is using

• Contrast and Contradictions

• Numbers and Statistics

• Quoted Words

• Absolute Language

When you are reading and you notice the author uses language that leaves no doubt, exaggerates, or pushes to the limit, why does the author say it like that?

• the author is exaggerating to make you think a certain way

• The answer will tell you something about the author’s point of view and purpose

• To prove ethos, pathos, and logos

• To help you come to a conclusion, make a comparison, see the details, infer, find facts, or recognize evidence

When you are reading and the author shows you a difference between what you know and what is happening in the text the author is using . . .

• Absolute Language

• Quoted Words

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Numbers and statistics

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

The iPhone XR, XS and XS Max — would have screens that measured between 5.8 inches and 6.5 inches diagonally, compared with 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches two years ago. In fact, the 6.5-inch screen on the iPhone XS Max is Apple’s biggest ever. - This is an example of which signpost?

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Absolute Language

• Quoted Words

• Numbers and Statistics

Today’s high school students are more precocious, more politically engaged, more tuned in to their gender identities . . . . They are already flooded with uncensored, unedited information, 24 hours a day. - This is an example of . . .

• Absolute Language

• Contrasts and contradictions

• Numbers and Statistics

• Quoted Words

“It got ugly pretty quickly,” recalls Abraham Levin, who was a senior at the time. - This is an example of . . .

• Contrasts and contradictions

• Numbers and Statistics

• Word Gaps

• Quoted Words

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

In extensive tendrils of hot gas that span the otherwise empty chasms between galaxies, more properly known as the warm-hot intergalactic medium, or WHIM. - This is an example of

• Word Gaps

• Absolute Language

• Contrasts and contradictions

• Numbers and statistics