By The Seattle Times, adapted by Newsela staff
- What is the central idea of the article? Explain using 2-3 pieces of evidence from the text.
- Do you think it is important for students to attend school? You must support your response with 3 pieces of evidence from the text. You may include 2 examples from prior knowledge.
- Be able to provide support for a claim in ways that chunk the supportive evidence into logically grouped categories
- Use transitional words, such as for instance, in order to, consequently, and specifically
- Use phrases that convey the relationship between the chunks of the text and the main claim such as one reason that is and an even more important reason for …. is