6.10.C Explain How Different Organizational Patterns Develop The Main Idea & Author's Viewpoint
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Grade 6
ELAR (2009)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
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- Q1The organization of paragraphs 2 through 4 contributes to the author’s main idea by —highlighting the effects school boats have had on peopledescribing school boats from their flat bottoms to their waterproof roofsexplaining how school boats came to becomparing school boats with other types of boats60s6.10.C: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Expository Text
- Q2The author organizes paragraphs 2 through 7 by —comparing the disappearance of yellow-spotted bell frogs to that of other speciesillustrating the attempts to increase the numbers of yellow-spotted bell frogsshowing the reasons people thought yellow-spotted bell frogs were extinctpresenting events that led to the rediscovery of the yellow-spotted bell frog60s6.10.C: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Expository Text
- Q3The author structures paragraphs 9 and 10 so that they —emphasize the difficulties Nomad might encounter while being used in Antarcticashow that Nomad has been searching for meteorites for a long timereport early successes Nomad had while meteorite hunting in South Americaexplain the changes that were made to Nomad before it could be used at the South Pole60s6.10.C: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Expository Text
- Q4The author organizes paragraphs 5 through 8 for the purpose of describing the —Great Pyramid’s problem with shrinking and comparing it with the problems of other Egyptian pyramidsevents that led to the Great Pyramid’s problem with shrinkingGreat Pyramid’s problem with shrinking and the efforts being made to solve itcauses of the Great Pyramid’s problem with shrinking and the effects this problem is having on the Egyptian people60s6.10.C: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Expository Text
- Q5The main purpose of paragraphs 8 through 10 is to —highlight the need for rest after chores were completedsuggest that children did less work than adultsshow that daily life on the trail included more than travel and hard laborgive examples of the types of books available to pioneer children60s6.10.C: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Expository Text
- Q6The organization of paragraph 2 focuses on the limitations of buildings in the early nineteenth century to show that —people preferred to have buildings with many windowsthe available technology prevented skyscrapers from being builtthe cost of materials prevented people from building skyscraperspeople were not interested in improving tall buildings60s6.10.C: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Expository Text
- Q7The organizational pattern of the article develops the author’s viewpoint by —describing the reason Festo invented SmartBird and the effects the invention has had on the companypresenting facts about how SmartBird works and explaining why it is a useful inventioncomparing SmartBird with other inventions and showing how technology has advancedrelating the sequence of events that occurred to create SmartBird60s6.10.C: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Expository Text
- Q8The section “Think Before You Blink” is organized in a way that shows —how blinking is affected by the use of different electronic devicesthe various factors associated with blinking rateswhich parts of the eye are responsible for blinkingthe different benefits babies and adults get from blinking60s6.10.C: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Expository Text
- Q9How does the organization of paragraph 4 contribute to the selection?It compares the making of the picture of President Wilson with the way Mole made his other photographs.It describes the problems people experienced while participating in Mole’s photographs and how Mole solved the problems.It explains in sequential order the steps Mole took to create a living photograph.It presents arguments to support the claim that Mole’s living photographs are a great accomplishment.60s6.10.C: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Expository Text