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Language Frames
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Social Studies
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and
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helped me understand
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Language Frames
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because
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Source Analysis:
reveals/suggests
because...
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because
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because
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in the
culture.
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Timeline and Word bank
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Lanquage Arts Sentence Frames
Lanquaqe Function
PredicUlnfer
Lanquaqe Form
because
Summarize- main
idea, details,
theme/author's
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Science sentence frames
Tet't Structure/Purpose/Function- Describing and defi nin g:
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Textbook Examples:
o Atoms are made up of subatomic particles.
o The nucleus is the center of the atom.
o A proton is a subatomic particle with a positive charse.
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Electrons have a negative charge.
The rest of the atom is made up of electrons, which surround the nucleus.
Although their masses are very different, electrons and protons have charges that are equally strone.
The electrons orbit the nucleus.
The positive and negative charges cancel each other.
Text Structure/Purpose/Function- Explanation- cause and effect:
Position in sentence: (1) cause, (2) effect
Position in sentence: (1) effect, (2) cause
When
when
If
if
Because
because
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causes
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as a result
of
is a cause
of
Since
smce
Due to
due to
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Textbook Examples:
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Because there is very little space between the particles, they can't be squeezed any closer together.
Particles are not packed together as tightly in a liquid, so they move more freely than they do in a liquid.
Gas particles move the fastest because the particles are freer to move around.
Ilthe pressure of a gas is high enough, a gas becomes a liquid.
Condensation occurs as a result of the change from a gas to a liquid.
When heat is added to a substance, the particles gain energy, which results in them moving faster and
farther apart.
Sequential RecountlBiography Sentence frames
When
Early in
In the
life,
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,
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for
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before
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during
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