Grade 5 ELA quiz: Author's reasons & evidence

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What this quiz should check

Topic: Reasons and evidence that support an author's points (RI.5.8). A good grade 5 quiz on this asks students to:

• Identify the particular points an author makes in an informational text
• Match each reason and piece of evidence to the point it supports
• Tell a reason apart from the evidence (facts, examples, statistics) behind it
• Spot a detail that does not support any of the author's points

Misconceptions worth a question

• Treating any true fact in the text as evidence for every point
• Confusing the topic of the text with the author's point about it
• Mixing up the author's reasons with the reader's own opinion

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