Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph's theme or flow. SPI 0601.3.7

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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
6. Paragraph Unity Worksheet - Cross out the irrelevant sentences and put the numbers of those in the spaces provided.
7. Sentence Order in Paragraphs - lesson and exercise
8. Sentence Order - lesson and exercise
9. Straying off the point - Identify which sentences are not connected to the main focus of the paragraph.

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