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Subject-Verb Agreement: Future Tense

The subject and verb of a sentence must agree in number.*

One of the simple verb tenses is future tense.

Close Reading

Verbs in future tense tell about what will happen. The word will is used to show future tense with both singular and plural subjects.

Focus on how close observation can explain how and why things in the world change

• Why do water hyacinths float on top of the water?

Informative/Explanatory Writing

Examples:

People will eat roots.

A badger will dig a den under a tree.

Use diagrams, photographs, or other text features to help reader comprehension.

• Compare and contrast growing plants using hydroponics and growing

plants in soil.

Lesson 9 - Literal and Nonliteral

Distinguish between literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context.

Questions to ask yourself:

• Is this information easy for a reader to understand?

• Would an illustration, photograph, or diagram help a reader understand this information better?

• Is this information something that is important for a reader to see?

Let's examine the text features, such as photographs and labels, illustrations, headings, boldface type, glossary and index.

Go to page 58 in the Reader’s and Writer’s Journal Lesson 8 for practice.

  • Explain what might happen to animals that live underground if trees didn’t have roots.

• How much wind can a palm tree withstand?

• What is the purpose of pencil roots and knee roots?

1. Identify facts and details that would be best expressed in an illustration.

2. Draw an illustration that aids comprehension.

Word Relationships

Illustrations to Aid Comprehension

Words can have literal and nonliteral meanings.

The literal meaning is the dictionary definition of a word.

A nonliteral meaning exaggerates or alters the real meaning of a word.

Team Talk

Writers sometimes use illustrations and other text features in informative/explanatory writing to aid reader comprehension.

Example: Goodluck, break a leg!

Literal meaning Nonliteral meaning

actually break a leg

goodluck, do your best, good wishes

Examples

"A grapevine has a taproot system. The first

root it grows is the taproot. It also has other

strong roots."

The author uses an illustration illustration of a grapevine on page 11 to help readers understand

how a taproot system looks underground.

"Can you see thousands of tiny root hairs on

this hyacinth root?"

Finished? Write a response to the prompt from your Reader's Writer's Journal in your Readygen notebook.

The author uses a photograph on p. 8 to help readers understand where root hairs are located on a real root.

Illustrations aid comprehension by helping readers visualize the information and also give your more facts, definitions, and details.

What were the most important ideas in At the Root of It ?

• How do illustrations/pictures aid reader comprehension in At the Root of It?

Are roots the most important parts of

plants?

At the Root of It

Lesson 9

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