Vocabulary
When people scowl, they have a smile on their face.
TRUE FALSE
FALSE
What is the subject of this sentence?
Maya Angelou is a famous American poet.
What is Maya Angelou?
Supply the missing conjunction in the sentence.
Barry enjoys eating kiwis _______ raspberries.
What is and?
What is or?
Explain what a claim is.
What is a statement that you can prove is true?
In what region of our state are people currently experiencing an inferno?
Southern California or Los Angeles
What is the verb in the sentence?
Bart read five books over the weekend.
What is "read?"
Give an example of a coordinating conjunction.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
Identify the sentence as a claim, as evidence, or as reasoning.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
What is a claim?
Tell about an incident or experience that made you feel sheepish.
Student response.
What are the verbs in the sentence?
Roxanne has been grooming and training her Boxer for the upcoming dog show.
What are "has been grooming" and "training?"
Correlative conjunctions are always used in ________.
What are pairs?
Identify the sentence as a claim, evidence, or reasoning.
The Pacific Palisades fire has destroyed over 12,000 structures.
What is evidence?
Name a place that is usually desolate at midnight.
public middle school, public library, public swimming pool
What is the subject?
Boxes of candy were delivered to the hospital.
What is boxes?
Use a pair of correlative conjunctions to complete this sentence.
Jorge plays ________the guitar ______ the mandolin.
What are "both...and" "neither...nor"?
Identify the sentence as a claim, evidence, or reasoning.
If screen viewing before bedtime disrupts sleep, then the sleep loss may interfere with important daytime activities such as being focused in school or maintaining the motivation to get tasks done.
What is reasoning?
Use the word doggedly correctly in a sentence. Include a context clue that points the reader to the meaning of the word.
Determined to earn an A on her math test, Gina doggedly studied for it.
Find the subjects and the verbs in this sentence.
We threw the ball, and then our dog retrieved it.
We and dog (subjects)
threw and retrieved (verbs)
What does the acronym FANBOYS stand for?
What are the coordinating conjunctions FOR, AND,
NOR, BUT, OR, YET, and SO?
In what type of writing is the claim, evidence, reasoning format used?
Expository writing
Informational writing
Argumentative writing
What is an antonym for giddy?
steady, balanced, composed, still
In the question "Will you please clean your room?", what is the subject, and what is the verb?
The subject is you, and the verb is clean.
Say a sentence with a conjunction and tell what the conjunction is.
Student response
State a claim that you think you could prove if you had access to text.
Student response