Discern irrelevant research material from written text. SPI 0801.4.5

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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. Information Elimination - Students model, instruct, and practice narrowing a topic for expository writing.
4. Identify the Topic Sentence and Information that Does not Belong - print the page and follow directions
5. 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

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