Quiz 1 - Reading and Writing

Writing a paragraph involves deep understanding of how one can achieve well focused and unified ideas in a composition.

• Narration

• Description

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

It helps you to create a vivid picture of what you are trying to express through written text.

• Narration

• Description

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

It is like where the writer presents impartial and actual picture of the subject without biases and excluding personal impression of the subject just like when you give your description of an experiment in class.

• Subjective description

• Objective description

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

It is like where the writer gives personal impression of what is observed. This is often used in making fiction stories. For instance, when you are asked to write about a place you visit during summer vacation, you tend to give your personal judgment of how you experience the place.

• Subjective description

• Objective description

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

It provides concise but exact meanings of unfamiliar words and explain special meanings for familiar words. They are often used to explain technical words and concepts.

• Definition

• Description

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

It is the secondary meaning of a word and not necessarily included in the dictionary. It is how a writer understands a word based on their own personal or consensual experiences.

• Connotation

• Denotation

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It is the dictionary meaning of the word. For example: Rose is a family of prickly shrub with pinnate leaves and showy flowers.

• Denotation

• Connotation

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It is a reading technique of allowing the eyes to travel over a page very quickly, stopping only here and there to gain an idea.

• Skimming

• Scanning

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

It is the most common and effective pattern to explain an idea or point. In developing this kind of paragraph, the writer develops a general statement –the topic sentence, with one or more examples to support it.

• Exemplification

• Classification

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

It is used when a writer needs to sort out or arrange subjects to groups or categories based on their common and shared characteristics.

• Exemplification

• Classification

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5