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Reasons & Evidence to Support Points

in Informational Text
1. What is the author trying to prove?

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2. List a piece of evidence from the text to show how you know.
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3. List another piece of evidence from the text to show how you know.
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4. How does the authors reasoning and evidence help you to determine what they are
trying prove?
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5. Find an idea explained in the text (one you havent already used yet) and use a
piece of evidence to support this idea.
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Monica Abarca 2015