Reading & WritingChapter 5: Text Structure and Purpose
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Official SAT mapping?
💡Connect the answer to whether existing material asserts, supports, qualifies, or interprets a claim.
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Craft and Structure → Text Structure and Purpose.
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: What is this topic's core focus?
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Identifying whether existing material asserts, supports, qualifies, or interprets a claim.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Content vs function?
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Content says what information appears; function explains what that information does in the text.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Best working strategy?
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label target C, E, or X, then state its exact relationship to surrounding reasoning
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Primary trap?
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reversing the direction of support or selecting new evidence
ExampleAsk what the relevant portion contributes to the passage as a whole.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: How does the target relate to the whole?
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evidence bears on a claim; explanation connects evidence to the claim or states why the finding matters
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Why read before the target?
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To identify the point or expectation the target will develop, support, complicate, or revise.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Why read after the target?
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The later sentence often interprets the target or reveals why it matters.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Main vs secondary function?
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Choose the role that best explains the target's contribution to the passage, not a merely incidental effect.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Unsupported-purpose warning?
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Do not infer a hidden motive, audience reaction, or intention not established by the text.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Content-paraphrase warning?
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Repeating what a target says is not enough; state its rhetorical relationship.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Wrong-target warning?
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Check that the option describes the referenced portion rather than an adjacent sentence.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: One-text boundary?
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Chapter 5 normally analyzes one text; relationships between two texts belong to Cross-Text Connections.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Transition boundary?
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Transition words can reveal structure, but choosing a transition belongs to the Transitions skill.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: 5-8: Final self-check?
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Does the answer state the correct rhetorical action, content target, scope, order, and degree of certainty?
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: Chapter 5 evidence vs Command of Evidence?
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Chapter 5 asks what role evidence already in the passage serves; Command of Evidence asks which evidence best supports or challenges a claim.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: What can a claim sentence do?
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Introduce, qualify, restate, challenge, or establish a hypothesis.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: What can evidence do?
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Substantiate, illustrate, challenge, qualify, or exemplify an assertion.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: What can explanation do?
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Connect evidence to a claim, supply a mechanism, interpret a result, or clarify significance.
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Claim, Evidence, and Explanation: Reversed-relationship trap?
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It says the claim supports the evidence when the evidence actually supports the claim.
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