Identify the sentence irrelevant to a paragraph's theme or flow. SPI 0501.3.4

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1. Determining Relevancy - help students understand the practice and value of evaluating information for relevancy to their research question
2. Highlighting Relevant Information - teach students how to find and highlight the relevant information that answers their research question
3. How to Edit or Proofread an Essay or Paper - article with suggestions
4. How to Use Word Choice That Catches the Reader's Eye - article with suggestions
5. Identify the Topic Sentence and Information that Does not Belong - print the page and follow directions [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Information Elimination (designed for grades 6-8) model, instruct, and practice narrowing a topic for expository writing.
7. Irrelevance Quiz - select the sentences that are irrelevant.
8. Logical Fallacies - article with examples - Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim
9. Organizing and Linking Your Ideas - lab activity to practice organizing and linking ideas
10. Paragraph Unity Worksheet - Cross out the irrelevant sentences and put the numbers of those in the spaces provided.
11. Practice Exercises - this six page document to print includes a number of exercises; one of them asks students to select eight irrelevant sentences from a paragraph
12. Reading Skills Practice - identify the irrelevant sentence
13. Reading Skills Practice - identify the topic sentence
14. Relevant vs Irrelevant Details - [designed for grade 4] lesson plan with links to related documents
15. Staying On Topic - [designed for grade 6] identify sentences that do not belong
16. Straying off the point - Identify which sentences are not connected to the main focus of the paragraph.
17. Troubleshooting Sentences - examples and ideas

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