explain the exact meaning of show that an idea or statement is DEFINE- JUSTIFY- correct or logical DESCRIBE- use words, images and diagrams to illustrate LIST- provide an itemized series of statements about DISCUSS- provide evidence or opinions about, arriving at a balanced conclusion OUTLINE- describe the essential parts only EVALUATE- up or appraise REVIEW- examine critically EXPLAIN- make the meaning of something STATE- express clearly SUMMARISE- briefly restate main ideas ILLUSTRATE- use diagrams, examples and details to make clear BACK-TO-BACK TASK Teaching students to write about the scatter plots needs to be scaffolded. An interesting way of doing this is the task. Students turn to face away from each other and one student describes the scatterplot to the other student and the other student attempts to draw the scatterplot based on their description. Try it now with your partner next to you, choose a scatterplot and try to describe in detail it will get loud! – USE OF CONJUNCTIONS Some words are satisfied spending an evening at home, alone, eating ice-cream right out of the box, watching Seinfeld re-runs on TV, or reading a good book. Others aren't happy unless they're out on the town, mixing it up with other words; they're joiners and they just can't help themselves. A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence. Conjunctions can make your essays appear much more interesting and intelligent to read. Co-ordinating Correlative Conjunctions Subordinating Conjunctions Conjunctions Phrases that like to Linking phrases hang out together
DEFINE- explain the exact meaning of DESCRIBE- use words, images and diagrams to illustrate DISCUSS- provide evidence or opinions about, arriving at a balanced conclusion EVALUATE- up or appraise EXPLAIN- make the meaning of something ILLUSTRATE- use diagrams, examples and details to make clear JUSTIFY- show that an idea or statement is correct or logical LIST- provide an itemized series of statements about OUTLINE- describe the essential parts only REVIEW- examine critically STATE- express clearly SUMMARISE- briefly restate main ideas BACK-TO-BACK TASK Teaching students to write about the scatter plots needs to be scaffolded. An interesting way of doing this is the task. Students turn to face away from each other and one student describes the scatterplot to the other student and the other student attempts to draw the scatterplot based on their description. Try it now with your partner next to you, choose a scatterplot and try to describe in detail – it will get loud! USE OF CONJUNCTIONS Some words are satisfied spending an evening at home, alone, eating ice-cream right out of the box, watching Seinfeld re-runs on TV, or reading a good book. Others aren't happy unless they're out on the town, mixing it up with other words; they're joiners and they just can't help themselves. A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence. Conjunctions can make your essays appear much more interesting and intelligent to read. Co-ordinating Conjunctions Linking phrases Subordinating Conjunctions Correlative Conjunctions Phrases that like to hang out together