Persuade means...

Inform means...

What is the authors purpose?
"Eating too much cake and not exercising will give us health problems."

What is the authors purpose?
"Every house should have a dog. They are cute, loyal and will protect your house."

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What is the authors purpose?
"She threw the paper airplane. It looped through the trees, under the dogs belly, up into the sky and landed in the hot air balloon."

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What is the author's purpose?
A recipe to make an award-winning spicy chicken salad.

What is the author's purpose?
A note from your friend asking you to be his science partner.

What is the author's purpose?
A care label on the back of a sweatshirt explaining how it should be washed.

What is the author's purpose?
The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare

What is the author's purpose?
A novel about a young girl who demands respect from the world

What is the author's purpose?
A sticker on a frozen pizza with directions explaining how to cook the pizza and offering nutritional information

The Underground Railroad was a secret organization which helped slaves escape to freedom. Many slaves were able to escape because of the conductors and station masters. The northern states were free states and slaves were free once they arrived in the north. Secret codes and signals were used to identify the conductors and station masters. 

Joe had been fishing for over two hours without a single bite. Suddenly there was a nibble at the end of his fishing line.  He stood up on the boat and leaned out too far.  Just then there was a sharp yank on the line.  Joe fell overboard and landed head first into the water. Joe and his friends laughed and laughed.

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Before the 1800's people didn't have right or left shoes.  They had shoes of just one shape that they used for both feet.  When people first saw right and left shoes, they laughed.  They called them "crooked shoes."  "What a silly idea," they said.  You can tell that shoes before 1800:

Tim looked out the window. The house looked so lonely. Tim's father put the last suitcase in the trunk and started up the car. Thor, his dog, put his head on Tim's lap, like he understood how  Tim was feeling. "It's okay Thor," he said, "Dad says we will like California." What is happening?

Joseph and Caitlin were choosing the players for their teams. It was Caitlin's turn to choose, and only Jason was left. Caitlin said, "Jason."

We can infer that…

Many breeds of dogs are used for work. In many cultures dogs are used to herd sheep. The dogs keep the flock from being attacked by animals such as wolves. They also keep sheep from wandering off. Sheepdogs are known for their loyalty and gentleness. Based on your reading of the text, you can INFER that:

Which sentence from the selection shows that the pet is a cat?

Which sentence from the selection suggests that Suzy likes to play basketball?

Which sentence from the selection supports that the computer was not working properly?

Which sentence suggests that Joanna rode her bike to school?

Which sentence supports that Jack is feeling sleepy?

Which of the following shows why Sam refused to play in the tournament?

Which line supports the idea that Mark has changed the way he feels about a girl on the team?

Which line supports the idea that Mark has changed the way he feels about a girl on the team?

Which line from the play supports the idea that Cara's proud of the work she's done with G-pa?

Which sent. from the story shows that Marvin doesn't want to create more problems for his mom?

Grandpa sees that his chocolate cake is all gone.  Brad has crumbs on his mouth. What do you think happened?

Gavin plays baseball and accidentally breaks a window.  How do you think he feels?

Which detail tells you that Mrs. McCoy is hungry?

[Cara sands the wood. Grandpa hums happily as he works on replacing the cracked piece.]suggests

One dinosaur had a brain that weighed about as much as three pencils.  Its body weighed ten tons and was over twenty feet in length.  As you can guess, this dinosaur did not think too clearly.  It wasn't the world's brightest dinosaur!  What is the main idea of this paragraph?

When we think of seaweed, we usually picture brown or green plants a foot or so in length.  Seaweeds are also of other colors.  Some are red.  Some kinds grow to lengths of a hundred feet!  These form giant seaweed forests, where many kinds of fish take shelter.  What is the main idea?

The range of a bird refers to the area over which it flies.  some birds are able to fly great distances, and range over almost the whole world.  Other birds have a very small range.  they travel over areas smaller than one hundred miles.  What is the main idea?

Not all animals that live in the water are fish.  Frogs and tadpoles, for example, spend part of their lives in water.  They are amphibians, not true fish.  Whales and seals are warm-blooded mammals.  Some snakes live partly in water too.  What is the main idea?

The red, green and amber traffic light is a safety signal.  Yet some drivers don't see it.  Some drivers don't obey it.  People cross the street without looking at it.  Often the traffic light turns out to be a signal of death.  What is the main idea?

There are about 13,000 wild horses in our country.  Most are in the high lands of the Southwest.  The horses find great difficulty in getting food during the winter months.  Snow covers the grass and small bushes that they feed on.  Their numbers grow smaller each year.  What is the main idea?

A man from another country counted all the car accidents.  He found out that cars painted pink or any light hade seem to be safer.  The light colors are more easily seen.  Cars of two or three different colors may be even safer.   What is the main idea?

Great waves that sweep in from the ocean are known as tidal waves.  Actually a tidal wave has nothing to do with the tides.  It is caused by an undersea earthquake called a seaquake, or by storms far out to sea.  A tidal wave may rise over fifty feet high.  What is the main idea?

The Navajo Indians have greatly increased in numbers in the last one hundred years.  One hundred years ago there were about six thousand Navajo.  Today there are fifteen times that many Navajo Indians - ninety thousand.  Today the Navajo is the biggest Indian tribe.  What is the main idea?

An octopus isn't fast enough to swim after a fish. The octopus must wait for a fish to swim by.  When the fish comes within reach, the octopus whips out his long arm to grasp it.  Then the octopus has a tasty meal.  What is the main idea?

When summarizing a story you must include...

Summaries help me...

Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.
The Summary of this passage is:

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.
The Summary of this passage is:

It started when they got to the bears. Peter felt tired and his stomach hurt. He dragged himself over to see the elephants, which were eating from a stack of hay. Normally, the elephants were his favorite. Without much interest, Peter followed his classmates to the camels, which were busy swatting flies with their tails. Peter knew he should be having fun at the zoo, but he just felt terrible and all he wanted to do was lie down and rest. Even the lions and tigers did not interest him now. 
The Summary of this passage is:

Right now Jason was playing right field. He really wanted to play third base. Earlier this year, coach had put him in left field and second base in a game, but never at third base. Once in practice, coach let him play third base, but he kept missing ground balls. When he did stop one, he made a bad throw to first base. Maybe if he kept practicing, Jason would be good enough to play third base. That was his dream.
The Summary of this passage is:

For the walls, Jenny thought she would use a bright yellow paint. She would pick a border that had mostly bright red and green colors, and maybe a little bit of blue. She already had found some curtains that were sky blue with streaks of red, blue and yellow that she thought would go great with the walls. And finally, she had picked a carpet that was mostly blue with specks of red and yellow. Jenny couldn't wait till she was done decorating her room. It was really going to look awesome.
 The Summary of this passage is:

For the walls, Jenny thought she would use a bright yellow paint. She would pick a border that had mostly bright red and green colors, and maybe a little bit of blue. She already had found some curtains that were sky blue with streaks of red, blue and yellow that she thought would go great with the walls. And finally, she had picked a carpet that was mostly blue with specks of red and yellow. Jenny couldn't wait till she was done decorating her room. It was really going to look awesome.
 The Summary of this passage is:

San Francisco is located on the coast of California in an area often called the Bay Area. The weather is generally very mild, seldom getting really cold or really hot. Its mild climate is one reason many people live there. It seldom snows in San Francisco and generally does not get below freezing during the winter. Even in the middle of summer, temperatures may be in the mid 80s with a cool breeze from the bay keeping the weather very comfortable.
The Summary of this passage is:
 

Julie watched the ants as they carried small crumbs down the trail to the anthill. She thinks ants are very hard working and industrious little creatures. They always seemed busy, and you never saw an ant just laying around doing nothing. They were carrying food, building tunnels, or defending the anthill. One thing you could say about ants is that they sure aren't lazy.
The Summary of this passage is:
 

The first book Chris read in fifth grade was about a lost kitten. Then he read a book about a family of bears, and then he read about a wild kangaroo in Australia. It seems every book Chris reads is about animals. Last week he found a good book about snakes and reptiles, and another book about elephants. Today Chris went to the library, and he checked out a book about dolphins, whales and other animals that live in the sea.
The Summary of this passage is:

Act naturally

"I am a deeply superficial person." - Andy Warhol
What is the oxymoron in this sentence?

She's gone to a better place is a euphemism for...

Which of the following is a euphemism for LYING

Poor health
Pretty ugly
Passed Away
Random order
All of the following are oxymorons except...

Which of the following is an oxymoron?

A man had a little dog, and he was very fond of it. He would pat its head, and take it on his knee, and talk to it. Then he would give it little bits of food from his own plate.
A donkey looked in at the window and saw the man and the dog.
"Why does he not make a pet of me?" said the donkey.
"It is not fair. I work hard, and the dog only wags its tail, and barks, and jumps on its master's knee. It is not fair."
Then the donkey said to himself, "If I do what the dog does, he may make a pet of me."
So the donkey ran into the room. It brayed as loudly as it could. It wagged its tail so hard that it knocked over a jar on the table. Then it tried to jump on to its master's knee.
The master thought the donkey was mad, and he shouted, "Help! Help!" Men came running in with sticks, and they beat the donkey till it ran out of the house, and they drove it back to the field.
"I only did what the dog does," said the donkey," and yet they make a pet of the dog, and they beat me with sticks. It is not fair."
What is the topic of the text above?

A man had a little dog, and he was very fond of it. He would pat its head, and take it on his knee, and talk to it. Then he would give it little bits of food from his own plate.
A donkey looked in at the window and saw the man and the dog.
"Why does he not make a pet of me?" said the donkey.
"It is not fair. I work hard, and the dog only wags its tail, and barks, and jumps on its master's knee. It is not fair."
Then the donkey said to himself, "If I do what the dog does, he may make a pet of me."
So the donkey ran into the room. It brayed as loudly as it could. It wagged its tail so hard that it knocked over a jar on the table. Then it tried to jump on to its master's knee.
The master thought the donkey was mad, and he shouted, "Help! Help!" Men came running in with sticks, and they beat the donkey till it ran out of the house, and they drove it back to the field.
"I only did what the dog does," said the donkey," and yet they make a pet of the dog, and they beat me with sticks. It is not fair."
Why did the donkey run into the room?

A Greedy Dog
One day there was a big dog that went traveling along a village. The dog looked starving. It wanted to have something to eat. As a result of its hunger, it went toward a butcher and swiped a piece of meat. Then, it ran away with the piece of meat in its mouth.
Now that it didn’t want to be disturbed by any other dog, the dog looked for a safe place to eat the meat. It ran into the direction of a garden. It came to a stream and crossed a narrow bridge over the stream. In the middle of the bridge, the dog stopped walking out of the blue. It looked into the water under the bridge. Another dog came up in the stream. The dog also had a piece of meat. The dog could not resist the temptation to get the other piece of meat in the stream and owing to the temptation, it quickly opened its mouth to take it. Unexpectedly, its own meat fell into the river and finally the dog got nothing.
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?

A lion was very angry with a gnat that kept flying and buzzing around his head. The gnat would not quit bothering the lion. “Do you think that you, the great king of all the animals, can make me scared?” the gnat said to the poor lion. The lion just kept trying to hit the gnat with his big paw. All he did was scratch himself with his great claws. The gnat laughed and flew between the big paws and stung the lion on the nose. He then buzzed away laughing at how he had stung the great lion. However, he was so busy thinking of how he would boast that he did not see the spider web. He got stuck in the web of a little spider and that was the end of him.
The gnat flew away thinking about ...

The best definition of theme is...

Which of these things is not related to the "theme" in a story?

When determining a theme, the reader should first consider...

What is the main difference between THEME and MAIN IDEA. 

Which of the following is an example of THEME?

What is the theme of this story?  

What is the theme of this story? 

What is the theme of this story? 

What is the theme of this story? 

What is the theme of this story? 

What is the theme of this story?

What is the theme of this story? 

What is true about all primary sources? 

The Declaration of Independence,
Primary Source - True or False?

A television show explaining Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. Primary Source - True or False?

An autobiography is NOT a Primary Source. True or False?

This picture book is a Primary Source - True or False?

Nathaniel Currier's 1846 Painting titled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor," Primary source of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 - True or False?

Newspaper announcing President Kennedy's assassination. NOT a Primary Source - True or False?

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutze from 1850 is a Primary Source of the Revolutionary War in 1776. True or False?

The thesis statement should express a main idea that links to supporting points

What is a thesis statement?

Which one is a good thesis statement?

Which of the following is a major component of any thesis?

The thesis statement should include your opinion on the on the points your are analyzing.

Which CLAIM is the strongest for the following thesis statements?

Choose the strong thesis.

Which topic sentence DOES NOT belong with the thesis below?
More than anyone else, I admire my mother because she is talented, kind, and selfless.

Which topic sentence DOES NOT belong with the thesis below?
Although there are those who claim otherwise, sports are not overrated because they are keep people active, they provide entertainment, and instill valuable life lessons in those that play them.

Which topic sentence DOES NOT belong with the thesis below?
Schools should start later in the day because it would allow for more sleep, aid efforts at better nutrition, and be more convenient for both students and parents.

Which topic sentence DOES NOT belong with the thesis below?
The best ways to be a good friend include being honest, supportive, and available.

What is the purpose of the thesis?

Point of view is...

How can you know that something is written in first person point of view?

She liked ice cream, but he liked cake. So they bought both.

A personal narrative is written in ______ person point of view.

Which point of view is the following:
"There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair."
_{from Divergent by Veronica Roth}

What point of view is the following:
Cathy leaned into her computer screen with big eyes. She couldn't believe it- she had finally gotten a 100 on her math test! She knew her parents would be proud of her.

What point of view is the following:
Maria introduced her project, which Amy thought she did a bit too enthusiastically. "OMG, thank you so much for letting me speak in front of you today! I am super excited, I spent so much time making this!" Maria said. Amy rolled her eyes and yawned.

What point of view is the following:
"Effie Trinket trots to the podium and gives her signature, “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!” But suddenly I am thinking of Gale and how the odds are not in his favor."
_{from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins}

We go to the mountains every winter for vacation.