Observe the picture carefully and jot down details of what you see in the picture. Then choose one thing in the picture that you would like to describe. Remember that you should have topic sentence and at least three details that support your topic sentence.
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A Decision-Making Tool : P M I strategy You can find this organizer helpful in forming your opinion. Listen to the story “Being First” at Go Read and Write Podcast where this strategy is explained. Then you can use the PMI to form your own opinion to the question “Is it always good to be
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Good stories have interesting characters. In the story, the author provides clues about the characters in the story and expects the reader to think about these clues in order to understand the characters fully. Sometimes, the clues are obvious, as the author says something about the character, as happens in stories with a narrator. Other
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Check out this youtube video about word roots ! Some English words come from other languages such as Latin or Greek. If you know some \”root\” words and possible prefixes/suffixes, you will be able to understand the meaning of many words that are new to you. Here is an example of how you can use
Have you ever heard the phrase \” He really gets my goat !\” ? This idiom means that someone is really irritating. Seems kind of odd though right ? The goat in the picture looks kind of cute and doesn’t seem to be bothering anyone at all. Actually, the origin of the phrase may
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Writing a compare/contrast paragraph can present a few hidden problems. A few things to keep in mind: Both of the pictures are of common garden flowers that are yellow in colour. Here is an example of a table for noting contrasting details before writing. Flower 1
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