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Text Structure: Compare/Contrast

5th Grade · Reading · Easy · about 10 minutes

RI.5.5 | Text Structure: Compare/Contrast - Easy level

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Standards referenced

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.8 — Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).

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