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READING AND C OMMENTING ON TEXT S

Provide evidence
When writing about a text,
every point made must be The first extract was written to persuade young children Long quotations
backed up with evidence. to eat a healthy breakfast. It starts by asking the need to be preceded
by a colon. If it’s
This can be made up of a reader a question: “Are your parents always nagging you longer than four
quotation (the exact words lines, skip a line
from the text), or a reference to eat breakfast?” The writer has also used phrases such before the quotation.
(a description of the pictures, as “ fuel,” “ filled up,” and “hit the road” to compare the Short quotations
structure, or layout). If using a process of eating breakfast to the process of filling can be embedded
quotation, it must be surrounded a car up with fuel. in the text.
by quotation marks to separate
it from the answer.

Explain why Fact or opinion?
This sentence states a fact.
After giving an example, it is essential to explain Facts are pieces of
what it shows about the text. This will make the information that can be
point clear. proved. Opinions are what
people believe or think.
This answer gives It is important to see the
an example. difference between fact
and opinion when figuring Su p er f la ke e e e e e e e e e e
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In general, informative texts
as “ fuel,” “ filled up,” and “hit the use facts, whereas persuasive from wheat
road” to compare eating breakfast to texts use personal opinions. and oats.
filling a car up with fuel. This simple Sometimes a text
will use both.
comparison makes the process easier
for young children to understand. It
also makes the text more fun, so it
This statement is
will hold a young audience’s attention. presented as a fact,
but it is actually an
opinion, because
not everyone would Superflake cereal is delicious.
agree with it.
It then explains why this
feature of the text is effective.
Comparing texts
Both texts are about the importance of a nutritious
When comparing two texts, do not breakfast and both try to persuade the reader to eat
write about one text and then the
other. Comparisons must be drawn These words more healthily. However, they use very different
help to
between the two, which means compare and language techniques. Whereas the first text, for young
picking out the similarities and contrast the children, uses simple language and basic explanations,
differences. Some useful terms for two texts.
making comparisons include both the second text, for adults, goes into much more detail
texts, similarly, by contrast, on and uses scientific terms such as “glycogen stores”...
the other hand, whereas, and
in comparison.