Language Arts Unit 5 Notes

Question 1

What is the purpose of a procedural text

Answer 1

To instruct the reader how to do or make something

Question 2

What are examples of procedural texts

Answer 2

Recipes, rules for games, science experiments, instruction manuals ( like for putting furniture or toys together), and operating manuals (for example, how to operate a video game system)

Question 3

What type of writing is expository writing

Answer 3

Expository writing is a type of informational writing in which the author’s purpose is to inform, explain, describe, or define the subject to the reader

Question 4

What are text features

Answer 4

Text features are elements that provide additional information to readers. They make texts easier to understand and more enjoyable

Question 5

What is the “structure of a text”

Answer 5

The structure of a text is how it’s ideas are organized

Question 6

What is a key feature of informational texts

Answer 6

One of the key features of informational texts is technical language, which is language specific to a line of work or discipline

Question 7

Why do writers use context clues

Answer 7

Writers add context clues to help readers understand the technical language

Question 8

What is one way writers incorporate context clues

Answer 8

By providing examples to show or explain what the word means

Question 9

What is another way writers incorporate context clues

Answer 9

By adding synonyms and antonyms

Question 10

What way are procedural texts structured

Answer 10

In sequential order

Question 11

How do procedural texts use visual aids

Answer 11

Procedural texts use visual aids to break down complicated tasks and to show what a step of a procedure should look like

Question 12

What should you think about when thinking about audience

Answer 12

What they know, what they are interested in, and what they will take away from your essay

Question 13

Which point of view is efficient in procedural essays

Answer 13

The second-person point of view

Question 14

What is media

Answer 14

Media is a general term for the various ways in which we communicate with and influence a large amount of people: radio, television, magazines, newspapers, and websites

Question 15

What is incorporated into media

Answer 15

Media uses a mix of language, images, and sound to get their message across

Question 16

What are the types of media in an expository text

Answer 16

Photographs, charts, diagrams, streaming video, and podcasts

Question 17

What should a revision focus on

Answer 17

A revision should focus on readability, logic, and clarity

Question 18

What should Editing and Proofreading focus on

Answer 18

They focus on grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation

Question 19

What is more logical to do first: revision or editing and proofreading

Answer 19

Revision

Question 20

What is important to include when communicating a procedure

Answer 20

Multimedia, whether images, video, or audio, is important when communicating a procedure

Question 21

Procedures with multiple steps benefit from what

Answer 21

Media that supports the written directions

Question 22

What are advice and instruction used for

Answer 22

Advice and instruction come in many forms, but they are meant to help other make a good decision, not belittle or patronize the

Question 23

Frequently, where does the advice people give originate

Answer 23

From their personal experiences

Question 24

What is important when trying to persuaded or convince someone

Answer 24

The words you use

Question 25

What are ways writers persuade their audience

Answer 25

• Appeal to the reader’s emotions
• Present reasons and facts that support the writer’s idea
• Or both of these

Question 26

Name 4 types of evidence an author might use in a persuasive essay to support his or her claim

Answer 26

Statistics, facts, personal experiences, and quotes

Question 27

How may a persuasive text be arranged

Answer 27

From most-to-least important, least-to-most important, pro-and-con, chronological, and more

Question 28

What is one way to draw your readers attention to something

Answer 28

You can make important things their own paragraph

Question 29

What are the three connections in literature

Answer 29

Text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self

Question 30

What are the three types of hooks

Answer 30

A surprising statement or fact, an unusual comparison, and a question

Question 31

What are principal parts of verbs

Answer 31

Principal parts of verbs are the basics that a grammar student needs to know in order to understand and create more complicated verb forms

Question 32

What does a verb’s principal part reveal

Answer 32

If it is regular or irregular

Question 33

What are regular verbs

Answer 33

Regular verbs are verbs that add -ed to the past-tense form

Question 34

What are the 4 principle parts of a verb

Answer 34

Present, present participle, past, and past partciple

Question 35

What are the 4 principle parts of a verb

Answer 35

Present, present participle, past, and past participle

Question 36

What are participles

Answer 36

Participles are verbs that cannot stand alone, and must be used with helping verbs

Question 37

Verbs in present participle tense use what

Answer 37

-ing

Question 38

Verbs in past participle tense use what

Answer 38

-ed, -en, -n, or -t, usually

Question 39

What is an irregular verb

Answer 39

A verb that changes form when it changes tense

Question 40

What is an inferential meaning

Answer 40

Inferential meaning refers to drawing conclusions that are based on, but not stated, in the text

Question 41

What is an implied meaning

Answer 41

Implied meaning refers to things that are suggested, but not directly expressed in the text

Question 42

What is Connotative language

Answer 42

Connotative language refers to using words that make the reader feel something

Question 43

What order do authors usually order their support

Answer 43

Strongest to weakest

Question 44

Words in Present progressive

Answer 44

Is, am, are

Question 45

Words in Past progressive

Answer 45

Was, were

Question 46

Words in Present Perfect-Progressive

Answer 46

Have been, has been