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How can a scientific investigation be an adventure?Essential Question Comprehension Skill: Main Idea & Key DetailsComprehension Strategy: SummarizeGenre: Expository TextVocabulary Strategy: Context CluesWords to Know: alternative, correspond, extract, foliage, hypothesis, protein, resilient, saturated Day One: Researcher to the Rescue Introduction *Essential Question Bell Ringer 4…

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Why Social Networking Sites Need to be Used Accordingly

           Social networking sites can have terrible effects if not used correctly because people can be scammed, raped, or addicted. And yet, why is it that most people still continuously use these sites without sufficient knowledge of what they might come across to? It is because the information about the effects are not elaborate enough. These horrendous effects are known of, but a number of people do not entirely understand HOW they can possibly stumble upon the said unpleasant events.

             People can be scammed. It is not new to hear of this act of deceit. Scamming apparently targets people with financial issues, and uses them as a source of income with the hopes that they will take the bait while the scammers would take the money, leave, and never be heard of again. Social networking sites make this job easier mainly due to the anonymity of communicating online without the need to show a real face, a real name, and other legit information. In contrast to this, scams are not only from the unknown, but it can also be from the people whom a person trusts in which they use this trust to chat him or her into actually believing that the given money would be returned with interest. Anyone can be a target in scams especially in social networking sites, but it is up to the person whether he or she would believe them or not.

             People can be raped. Yes, people. It is not only women who can be raped, but also men. Most rape cases start from social networking sites in just the same reason as scams: anonymity. It starts with a harmless chat, which turns into continuous messaging and leads to personal interaction. This personal interaction is what most people would call “eyeball” and the event where the sexual predator would groom the person into thinking that what they are doing is justified while performing a forced sexual intercourse on the victim.  In social networking sites, some people are not who they appear to be and being a rapist can be one of those possibilities.

             People can be addicted. This addiction starts when a person continuously and habitually does what he or she desires to do (which, in this case, is visiting social networking sites all day long), disregarding other matters like work and family relationships. According to an article written by Dr. Lawrence Wilson, social networking sites can take a person out of physical reality and into a fake world which takes too much of his or her time. It can also be used as an instrument of procrastination from school tasks or jobs which decreases the quality of the work submitted.

             All in all, people should have enough knowledge about the terrible things that can happen to them if they do not use social networking sites accordingly. These sites have access on one’s privacy, which can be equivalent on his or her safety. It can also take too much of his or her time. A person must know how to handle these sites, so as to avoid the possibility of experiencing their horrible effects.

  -De Guzman, Angela Pauline D. 

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Over the past 60 years, reading comprehension has changed its emphasis from the mastery of skills and subskills that are learned by rote and automatized to a focus on learning strategies, which are adaptable, flexible, and, most important, in the control of the reader (Dole, Duffy, Roehler, & Pearson, 1991). One of the most efficient strategies for which there is an influx of research and practice is training students on text structure knowledge to facilitate their comprehension of the expository texts.

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Cause and Effect Graphic Organizers and Articles

  Texts with the structure of cause and effect can be represented in different ways. When I teach this text structure to my students, I use a variety of graphic organizers to help them visualize the ideas in the text. Sometimes, a generic graphic organizer will do:

   As you can see, the big arrow in the middle shows that causes lead to effects. This kind of generic organizer can easily be made by students on their own. Different texts will have different orders of causes and effects. While most historical texts will show the causes first and then the effects, some science texts will start with an effect, and then show the causes of the effect. It's interesting to compare these two arrangements with students to discuss the author's choices.

   With younger students, it's often helpful to scaffold the process of learning cause and effect by using text-specific organizers. (The examples below can be found as a paid download here.) This organizer shows how several causes lead to one effect. In this case, the readers have to find the effect that is given in the text. 

  More sophisticated texts often show a series of causes and effects. In this case, separate boxes can help readers to see the distinct causes and effects.

  One of my favorite ways to have students match causes and effects is with sorting cards. In this activity, students cut out cards with causes and effects, and then match them together. It's always interesting to hear the discussions that develop as students engage in this activity and see them spontaneously go back to the text to find evidence to support their thinking. 

  Of course, this cutting and pasting can be time-consuming. Which is why it is so nice to have a way to create cause and effect graphic organizers with the iPad. 

  In Frolyc, you can create a cause and effect graphic organizer for students to use on the iPad. Simply choose "Cause and Effect-Visual Organizer" as the Activity Type.

   Then, type in the causes and effects that you would like students to match.

Here is what the activity will look like for students once you have published the activity to the iPad and assigned it to students.

Students can drag and drop the causes to match the effects.

If you would like to try some prepared cause and effect articles for Activity Spot, use these links:

Raising a Stink About Stink Bugs

The Reason for a Rainbow

What Is a Tsunami?

What kinds of activities do you use to help students find causes and effects?

-Emily Kissner

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Expository text is written about a particular subject, assuming the reader doesn't have knowledge about the topic. Because of this, expository text usually makes an effort to demonstrate clarity and avoid convoluted sentences, helping to educate the reader rather than leave him feeling more confused.