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Genre: Expository Text Question:

 Explains important facts about a topic Why are natural
 Supports specific points with reasons and evidence resources valuable?
 Text features: maps, charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines

Comprehension Skill: Author’s Point of View

 Author’s point of view is the author’s attitude
toward the subject of the text.
 Author’s point of view can help you
determine why the author wrote the text.
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 Ask yourself: What reasons and evidence Words
does the author use?
1. rancher
2. searcher
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues 3. pressure
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4. future
5. butcher
 “ ” 6. measure
7. pleasure
8. mixture
Vocabulary Words: 9. treasure
10. feature
1. absorb—soak up 11. pasture
2. affect—influence
12. creature
3. circulates—move in a circular path
4. conserve—keep something from harm, loss, or change 13. lecture
5. cycle—a series of events that happen over and over in 14. gesture
the same order
15. nature
6. glaciers—large masses of ice found in cold regions or on
top of high mountains 16. fracture
7. necessity—something that is needed or required 17. moisture
8. seeps—flow or spread slowly
18. stretcher
19. legislature
20. azure