How to Create Elaborations

This is what type of elaboration? “Choose a word, phrase, or idea from the evidence, and explain what it means so your reader can better understand.”

• Definition

• Anecdote

• Prediction

• Evidence

“If this continues to happen and bees keep leaving their hives, crops will fail, costing farmers millions of dollars.” This elaboration is an example of:

• Explanation

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Example

“Provide an example from the text or from background knowledge to help illustrate the evidence” is what type of elaboration?

• Explanation

• Prediction

• Anecdote

• Example

This is an example of which type of elaboration? ”Colony collapse disorder is when bees leave their nest but never return. Scientists are searching for the cause.”

• Explanation

• Definition

• Evidence

• Example

An anecdote

• Is to make a prediction based on your evidence that will help support your topic

• Is to provide a comparison to the evidence that supports your topic

• Shows a cause and effect relationship based on your evidence

• Is a short personal story that helps further explain the evidence.

Breaking down the evidence into your own words and drawing a conclusion is what type of elaboration?

• Explanation

• Prediction

• Example

• Summary

To provide a comparison to the evidence that supports your topic is to:

• Provide an example

• Compare and contrast

• Give an anecdote

• Give an explanation

When you predict, you:

• Elaborate on the evidence

• Provide an example to help illustrate the evidence

• Make a prediction based on your evidence that helps support your topic

• Provide an explanation of your evidence

Evidence: According to the authors, Africa lost more than 60% of its elephants to poachers over the last 10 years. Elaboration: ”That is more than half of all the elephants in the country, meaning that at this speed, the elephants could soon die out.” What type of elaboration is shown above?

• Explanation

• Cause and effect

• Anecdote

• Example

The evidence says “According to the authors, Africa lost more than 60% of its elephants to poachers over the last ten years.” The elaboration “In a small village in Nigeria, there were approximately 315 elephants killed during the illegal poaching season in 2018 alone, as noted in passage 1. This is what type of elaboration?

• Example

• Explanation

• Anecdote

• Definition