RI.5.8 Reteach- Eat Organic Text

Match the academic vocabulary word with its meaning.

• Author's Purpose

• why the author wrote the text

• Evidence

• facts or information the author uses

• Author's Viewpoint

• how the author feels about the topic

• Reasoning

• the explanation given or conclusion the author has drawn

What is the author’s message in this passage?

• Conventional food is best for your body, animals, and the environment.

• Organic food is too expensive.

• Organic food is best for your body, animals, and the environment.

• Conventional food is too cheap.

Why did the author write this? 

• to tell a story about how organic food was bad for a person

• to encourage people to eat organic food

• to tell about the negative and positive effects of eating organic food

• to convince the reader to quit eating organic food

The author’s overall purpose in writing this article was to:

• to persuade people to eat organic food

• to inform people about the negative and positive effects of conventional food

• to entertain with a story about a family going grocery shopping

• to describe how to cook with organic food

Which evidence supports the author’s overall claim about organic food?

• "Cows are given growth hormones."

• "Many conventional farms treat their animals appallingly."

• "Did you know that your great-great grandparents ate organically?"

• "Organic food cannot be treated with pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics, growth hormones, or other chemicals."

Which evidence supports that conventional food has negative impacts?

• "Many conventional farms treat their animals appallingly."

• "Many animals raised at conventional farms never see the light of day."

• "Animals are overfed and pumped with hormones to profit the farmer."

• All of the answers are correct

What could be added to strengthen the "Eat Organic" text?

• A list of grocery stores that offer a wide-variety of organic food

• An explanation of how to raise cattle

• An account from a farmer about challenges he faces with weather.

• Recommendations of nearby cooking classes