Discern irrelevant research material from written text. SPI 0601.4.5

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1. Determining Relevancy - help students understand the practice and value of evaluating information for relevancy to their research question
2. Eliminating irrelevant information - The different stages of eliminating irrelevant information
3. Highlighting Relevant Information - teach students how to find and highlight the relevant information that answers their research question
4. Information Elimination - Students model, instruct, and practice narrowing a topic for expository writing.
5. Irrelevant Sentences Worksheets - reading practice worksheet where you find the irrelevant sentences in paragraphs.
6. Logical Fallacies - article with examples - Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim
7. Relevant vs Irrelevant Details - Students will identify relevant and irrelevant details of a non-fiction passage. (4th grade reading level)
   

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