Audience/Author's Purpose/Claim
What is the audience?
The people who the author expects or wants to read what they are writing.
What is the author’s main claim in the article?
The world would be better if people acted like they do in pickup basketball.
Where did Wes and his family move two years after his father died?
The Bronx, New York
Something that can cause harm or is not safe.
Dangerous
The road was dark, but the __________ helped me see where I was walking.
Streetlights
What is the Author's Purpose?
The reason why the author writes a text.
How does pickup basketball bring different people together?
It doesn’t matter what race, class, or age you are—everyone plays together.
What did Wes realize about the basketball court in the Bronx?
It was a special place where all kinds of players came together. It was a good place to make friends.
Push someone or something gently with an elbow or hand.
To Nudge
There wasn’t __________ food for everyone at the party, so some people were still hungry.
Enough
What is the claim?
The main argument or thesis of a text.
What is one reason the author gives to support his claim?
Pickup basketball is free and helps people connect.
What did Joy, Wes’s mom, realize about the Bronx, the neighborhood she grew up in?
Poverty was rising, and crime and drugs had increased.
To move your head up and down to say yes or show understanding.
To Nod
When my mom was on the phone, I tried to __________ to hear what she was saying.
Eavesdrop.
In an editorial, an author should give multiple ___________ to explain why he or she supports the claim.
Reasons
Why was the author looking for a pickup basketball game?
He was lonely in a new city and wanted to meet people.
How did the boys on the court greet Wes?
They called out their names and gave him a dap (a handshake and chest bump).
To secretly listen to other people’s conversations.
To Eavesdrop
She smiled ___________ when she heard the good news.
brightly