Reasons and Evidence to support Claims and Points

ELA Standard: RI.4.8 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

Check your answers. Did you identify all the opinion and facts?

Instructions:
1. Carefully read the paragraph on the right about year-round school. Glue a copy in your journal to do the following:
​2. Highlight the opinions in the paragraph in yellow.
3. Highlight the facts in the paragraphs in blue.
4. Underline the main claim that provides focus of the paragraph.

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