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Beacon Learning Center: Information Elimination: Lesson on Narrowing the Topic ActivityBeacon Learning Center: Information Elimination: Lesson on Narrowing the Topic Activity
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Beacon Learning Center
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3rd - 8th
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English Language Arts
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Beacon Learning Center: Information Elimination: Lesson on Narrowing the Topic

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This is a tutorial which focuses on how to narrow the topic for expository writing, how to determine what information to keep or eliminate, and what questions to ask yourself. Students respond to questions throughout. A comparison is made to a detective during an investigation. Java is required.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Additional Tags

eliminating information, narrowing the topic, research information, research paper, research sources, expository writing, narrow focus

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

W.7.7 W.3.7 W.5.7 W.4.7 W.5.2.b RST.6-8.9 W.4.2.b RI.3.5 W.6.2.b RI.3.9 W.6.7 RI.5.9 RI.7.9 CCRA.W.7 W.8.2.b SL.6.1.c SL.8.1.a SL.7.1.a W.7.2.b SL.3.1.c

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