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 Assessment
Review Objective:
This is your chance to show your understanding and skills
in analyzing and interpreting text features.
You will be asked to demonstrate your skills practiced in
Lessons 15, 16 and 17. There will be some multiple choice,
some short answer, and some extended response questions.
Warm up time! Let's do a quick review of objectives and tips
from each lesson to be sure you're prepared to do your best.
Activate what you already know so you do your best.
Read over the objectives for each lesson.
Lesson 15 - Review
and practice using (applying) your understanding
of text features.
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Lesson 16 - Identify, practice
and apply reading and writing strategies
to understand and make these comparisons within
a text:
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- sequence of events (this helps analyze
cause and effect),
- compare and contrast facts or events.
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Lesson 17 - Identify,
practice and apply reading and writing
strategies to understand and make these
comparisons between two or more different
informational texts:
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compare and contrast
facts and events.
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Review the Tips and Tools
for each lesson. Remember, there is more information on each
lesson's page. This is just a summary of key points. This is
a good place to start, but you will also want to go back and
review the first page of each lesson.
Lesson 15: Apply Understanding of Text Features
Be
aware of text features and ask questions
while you read. Be active in your reading and notice the
titles, captions with pictures, headings, and any other
clue to help you understand what you read.
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Title and sub-titles, section headings
- Captions
- Visuals such as charts, graphs, maps, arrows or bullets
- Bold or italicized print, quotation marks.
Ask questions while you read.
Be active in your reading and wonder why the author wrote
the article in a certain way.
- What is the purpose of this text?
- How do I know?
- What is the structure of this text?
- What tells me this?
- Why might I read this kind of text? What meaning
do I hope to gain from this text?
- What do I already know about the topic?
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Lesson 16: Comparing and Contrasting Text Elements
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Cause/Effect: A cause
is a starter or a reason. Some events, statements, situations,
or ideas cause others things to happen.
The result, or reason, or consequence of a cause
is an effect.
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Try an "As a result of"
statement with events in the story to identify
cause/effect:
As a result of the oil spill in the Pacific, marine
life washed up on the beach, covered in oil and unable
to survive.
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Compare means to find similarities,
or things that are alike, or the same in
some way. Contrast means to find differences,
or things that are not alike.
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Use graphic organizers to figure
out connections between events, data, dates, and facts.
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Write with intention, purpose and organization.
Review the formatting ideas on Lesson 16, Tips page.
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Words that show similarity
| both |
together |
alike |
equal |
uniform |
| parallel |
comparable |
equivalent |
same |
complementary |
| at the same time |
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Words that show differences
| different |
although |
while |
unlike |
various |
| individual |
unique |
distinct |
otherwise |
dissimilar |
| in contrast |
besides |
in spite of |
however |
on the other hand |
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Lesson 17: Comparing and Contrasting Between Texts
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The skills are the same as those reviewed in Lesson 16,
just remember that you'll be comparing elements between two
different informational texts.
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If you have time, you might skim over the examples for
lessons in which you might have questions.
Skim the Rubrics section of this course to review tips
on answering multiple choice, short answer, and extended response
questions.
Be sure you are comfortable with the criteria for scoring
and evaluating short answer questions because scoring your
writing will be part of your responsibility.
When you are all warmed up and have about 90
minutes, go ahead and demonstrate your effective reader's skills!
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