Text Structure & Features Argum
This text feature helps readers understand the river’s location.
What is a map?
The article mainly explains this major change to the Elwha River.
What is the removal of the Glines Canyon Dam and the river’s recovery?
Salmon returned after this event.
What is the removal of the Glines Canyon Dam?
The author mainly wants to do this.
What is to inform readers?
Conservationists make this claim.
What is dams harm salmon populations?
The comparison photos show readers what changed.
What is showing before-and-after change?
The river’s recovery shows that removing dams can ___.
What is help ecosystems recover?
This animal benefits from salmon returning.
What is the American dipper?
The author views dam removal as mostly ___.
Opponents argue dams are still needed for this reason.
What is dams provide clean energy and water storage?
Headings help organize the text by ___.
What is organizing information into sections?
One central idea is supported by wildlife recovery.
What is dam removal helps wildlife return and thrive?
This fact shows how successful the dam removal was
What is salmon returning after nearly a century?
The author’s attitude toward conservationists can be described as ___.
What is supportive or favorable?
Identify one piece of evidence supporting dam removal.
What is salmon returning and wildlife thriving?
Maps help readers understand ___.
What is where the river, dams, and landmarks are located?
The article suggests that other dams should maybe ___.
What is be removed like the Snake River dams?
This detail explains how salmon help other animals.
What is salmon provide nutrients that birds need to survive?
The author’s purpose includes encouraging readers to ___.
What is think about the benefits of dam removal?
Conservationists use the Elwha River as an example to argue ___.
What is that removing dams can restore ecosystems quickly?
Multiple text features work together to help readers ___.
What is better understanding the topic and main ideas?
The implied central idea about future dam removals is ___.
What is that freeing rivers can restore ecosystems and should be considered elsewhere?
This statistic supports how significant the dam removal was.
What is the dam being 210 feet tall and the largest ever removed?
The author’s perspective is most aligned with ___.
What is conservationists and environmental restoration?
Identify the claim, evidence, and reasoning used to support dam removal.