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Question: What is the best organizational text structure for a biography?

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Answer: chronological order

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Chocolate and vanilla both come from beans but their beans are very different. The cocoa bean is large and oval shaped. The vanilla bean is thin and long. It is the seeds within both beans that the flavors are taken from.

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Answer: compare and contrast

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What are iguanas and where do they live? Iguanas are large lizards found in several southern states, Central and South America, the Caribbean Islands and Africa. Some types of iguanas live in tropical rain forests, others live in deserts, and there are some that live on rocks along the ocean.

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Answer: question and answer

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What is the organizational text structure of this passage?

A terrible earthquake in the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Japan caused a tsunami to hit the island country with full force. From the tsunami came thousands of deaths. These deaths are affecting lives of hundreds of thousand of people: family, friends, and coworkers.

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Answer: cause and effect

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Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois. He was one of five children. He lived most of his childhood in Missouri. Walt had very early interests in art, he would often sell drawings to neighbors to make extra money. On December 21, 1937, he produced the first full-length animated musical feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. During the next five years, Walt Disney Studios made other classics such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi. Walt Disney's dream of a clean, and organized amusement park, came true, as Disneyland Park opened in 1955.

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Chronological order

What do you call the words that are found near a picture and that tell more about the picture?

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Text Features

Answer: explained

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Text Features

Answer: a caption

What does the topic sentence of a paragraph tell us?

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Answer: explained

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Text Features

Answer: the main idea of the paragraph

Clue: What words are used to help the text flow from one part to another?

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Text Features

Answer: transition words

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Clue: What text feature gives additional information about a particular topic and can be found in a separate section in the back of a nonfiction book?

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Text Features

Answer: an appendix

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Clue: What text feature gives us prior information before the actual nonfiction text begins?

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Text Features

Answer: a preface

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What type of graphic feature could give you directions to get to a certain location?

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Graphic Features

Answer: a map

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What type of graphic feature is this?

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Graphic Features

Answer: a bar graph

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Graphic Features

Answer: a diagram

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What kind of graphic feature might you find if your were reading a biography?

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Graphic Features

Answer: a time line

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What kind of graphic feature is this?

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Graphic Feature

Answer: a chart

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a remarkable speaker.

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Answer: Opinion

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Lou Gehrig was a prototype for good sportsmanship.

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Answer: Opinion

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Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist.

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Answer: Fact

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President Obama has two lovely daughters named Malia and Sasha.

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Answer: Opinion

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Emmitt Smith holds the record for the most rushing touchdowns of any NFL professional football player.

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Answer: Fact

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A terrible earthquake in the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Japan caused a tsunami to hit the island country with full force. From the tsunami came thousands of deaths. These deaths are affecting lives of hundreds of thousand of people: family, friends, and coworkers.

How can the country of Japan be described?

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Answer: an island country

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In the early days of Rome, every citizen had to be prepared to fight, but soldiers of the Roman imperial army were paid, highly trained professionals who signed on for 20-25 years of service. The ordinary foot soldier was equipped with a short sword, two javelins, and a heavy shield of leather and wood. When he was not at war, he was building forts and roads.

What materials were the protective gear of a Roman soldier made of?

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Answer: leather and wood

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Beyonce was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She was in several singing and dancing competitions as a child. Later she became the lead singer of the R&B girl group, Destiny’s Child. Beyonce’s last name is Knowles. She has been managed by her father all of her career until just recently.

Where did Beyonce spend her childhood?

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Answer: Houston, Texas

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Construction of the magnificent Washington Monument took nearly a century of planning, building and controversy. Finally, in 1848, work started on the monument that stands today. After more fits and starts, the monument was finished in 1884 and opened to the public in 1888. The tapered shaft, or obelisk, is made of stone and is covered with white marble. The monument stands just over 555 feet.

In which year did the construction of the Washington Monument initiate?

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Answer: 1848

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Nominated for president in 1835, William Henry Harrison was a military hero whom the conservative politicians hoped to be able to control. He ran surprisingly well against Van Buren in 1836. Four years later, he defeated Van Buren but caught pneumonia and died in Washington on April 4, 1841, a month after his inauguration. Harrison was the first president to die in office.

How long was William Henry Harrison president of the United States?

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Answer: one month

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What is the cause?

Darius had to go see a doctor and get some medicine.

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Cause and Effect

Answer: Darius got sick.

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Your teacher fell asleep in class.

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Cause and Effect

Answer: The class went crazy and the teacher got fired!

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What is the cause?

Trees were knocked down and cars overturned. Houses were torn apart.

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Cause and Effect

Answer: a tornado

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What is the effect?

A thief stole money from a convenience store.

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Cause and Effect

Answer: The thief went to jail.

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What is the effect?

Students were very nervous about taking the CRCT and couldn’t concentrate.

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Answer: Those students did not do their best on the CRCT.

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