Understanding Informational Passages

Construct a multi-paragraph written response in which you make a claim about whether or not homework improves student achievement. Your response must be based on ideas that can be found in both passages.

• Homework decreases student achievement because it causes students like me to lose sleep and be bored in class, like social studies.

• Students have a lot of other things to do after school and should not have to do homework.

• I do not think homework improves student achievement.

• Homework increases student achievement because it involves practice of skills and gets students to remember topics better.

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

A close examination and interpretation of a non-fiction (usually argumentative) work that analyzes how the author uses language, devices, and genre characteristics to create intended effects and persuade the reader.

• Logical Fallacy

• Rhetorical Analysis

• Rhetorical Device

• Key Ideas

Text structures are the way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text. Which of the following are examples of types of text structures? (Choose three.)

• Cause and effect

• Compare and contrast

• Sequence

• Syntax

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

An author's purpose is the reason an author writes about a particular topic. What are the reasons an author writes? 

• Inquire

• inform

• research

• entertain

• persuade

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CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

An informational text presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

​ (a)   is when the speaker restates the meaning of something in different words.

• Paraphrase

• Synthesize

• Summarize

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that support a reader's claim, thought, inference, or analysis about a text is called ​ (a)  

• text evidence.

• digital text.

• text structures.

• credibility.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What is the primary purpose of an informational passage?

• To entertain the reader

• To provide factual information

• To tell a story

• To express personal opinions

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of the following is a common feature of informational texts?

• First-person narrative

• Imaginary characters

• Factual content

• Rhyming schemes

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

In an informational passage, what is the role of a topic sentence?

• To introduce the main idea of a paragraph

• To conclude the passage

• To provide a humorous anecdote

• To confuse the reader

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5