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What is the Contrasts and Contradictions signpost?
a) The author uses numbers, number words, or amounts.
b) The author shows the difference between what you know and what is happening or between two different things in the text.
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d)
What is the Numbers and Statistics signpost?
a) The author uses numbers, number words, or amounts.
b) The author uses words that exaggerate or push the limits.
c)
d)
What is the Extreme or Absolute Language signpost?
a) The author uses words that exaggerate or push the limits.
b) The author shows the difference between what you know and what is happening or between two different things in the text.
c)
d)
What question do you ask when you notice Extreme or Absolute Language?
a) Why did the author use these numbers?
b) Why did the author use this language?
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d)
What question do you ask when you notice Contrasts and Contradictions?
a) Why did the author use these numbers?
b) What does this make me wonder about?
c)
d)
What question do you ask when you notice Numbers and Statistics?
a) Why did the author use these numbers?
b) Why did the author use this language?
c)
d)
What signpost is this an example of? Hank Aaron hit 755 home runs in his baseball career. Only Barry Bonds has more home runs in Major League baseball with 762.
a) Numbers and Statistics
b) Contrasts and Contradictions
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d)
Why does the author in the previous example point out that Hank Aaron hit 755 home runs?
a) She is trying to tell you that Hank Aaron was a very good baseball player.
b) She is trying to say that Hank Aaron wasn't very good at baseball.
c)
d)
What signpost is this an example of? When some of the Lost Boys of Sudan moved to Chicago, they were surprised by what they found. Sudan is a very dry country without much water. Chicago has a lot of rain an the city sits on the edge of a great lake.
a) Contrasts and Contradictions
b) Numbers and Statistics
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d)
Why does the author in the previous example point out that the Sudan is dry and Chicago is wet?
a) He is trying to say that Chicago is the same as the Sudan.
b) He is pointing out that Sudan is very different from Chicago.
c)
d)
What signpost is this an example of? It’s scorching outside! It's raining buckets! I'm starving!.
a) Numbers and Statistics
b) Extreme or Absolute Language
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d)
Why does the author in the previous example exaggerate things so much?
a) She is making a point that she feels something strongly.
b) She is trying to get you to not pay attention.
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d)
What type of Quoted Words is where the author quotes an expert who wrote down their words in a book, magazine, or newspaper?
a) Personal Perspective
b) Others' Words
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d)
What type of Quoted Words is where the author quotes someone who is not an expert but personally experienced what happened?
a) Personal Perspective
b) Others' Words
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d)
What type of Quoted Words is where the author quotes an expert who they are talking to?
a) Voice of Authority
b) Others' Words
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d)
What type of Quoted Words is this example? If we don't stop cutting down the rainforest, we could lose 20% of tropical species in only a few years time, said Dr. Alan Grant of the Amazon Conservancy Project.
a) Voice of Authority
b) Personal Perspective
c)
d)
What type of Quoted Words is this example? “I saw the loggers cutting down the trees in the rainforest with my own eyes, said local resident Paolo Rodriguez, They came in with machines and clear-cut everything!
a) Voice of Authority
b) Personal Perspective
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d)
What type of Quoted Words is this example? An article in the journal Nature says When rainforest is cut down, it badly impacts weather systems all over the world.
a) Personal Perspective
b) Others' Words
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