Common Core Standard W.6.2b Questions

Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.

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Grade 5 Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.2, W.3.2b, W.4.2b, W.5.2b, W.6.2b

Scientists are learning a great deal about the aging process. This knowledge will allow doctors to help their patients live longer and better lives. They will be able to defeat diseases associated with aging and perhaps even delay the onset of old age. Many doctors would agree that some medicines are much too expensive.

Choose the sentence that should be removed from the paragraph.

Scientists are learning a great deal about the aging process.
This knowledge will allow doctors to help their patients live longer and better lives.
They will be able to defeat diseases associated with aging and perhaps even delay the onset of old age.
Many doctors would agree that some medicines are much too expensive.

Grade 6 Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.2, W.6.2b

1. Books were hard to get for the mountain men among the western settlers.
2. Sometimes a mountain man would carry a single battered book with him for years.
3. Some of the men had Bibles, and even more had Shakespeare’s plays.
4. Shakespeare was a favorite with mountain men, even if they could not read.
5. When they found someone who could read, he was often asked to read one of Shakespeare’s plays to a group over a campfire.
6. There were mountain men who could not sign their own names, but could quote passages of Shakespeare by heart.

Which sentence does not directly support the main idea?

Sources: http://lumoslearning.com/llwp/main-idea-worksheet.html

Sentence #2
Sentence #3
Sentence #5
Sentence #6

Grade 6 Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, W.6.2b, W.6.3b

You can improve all kinds of writing, from letters to reports, by adding details that readers your main ideas.

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