Text: Television Is Educational
Q1: What is the topic of this text?
The topic of this text is that Television Is Educational.
Q2: Is the author against this topic or for? How do you know?
The author is for this topic because he is talking about how kids could get a range of educational opportunities and can learn different varieties of skill learnt at school from television.
Q3: What reasons does the author use to support their opinion?
They say that they can learn different varieties of skills learnt at school from television and that television lets children learn about the world around them if you don’t have enough to travel from country to country or you just can’t go outside.
Q4: Who could the author be writing to?
He would be writing to people's parents saying let your children watch television for educational purposes only.
Q5: What emotive language or phrases do you use to persuade the reader?
They use I most certainly feel, It is without a doubt, Develop variety of skills, Educational benefits, Excellent range of quality.
Q6: What connective words or phrases has the author used to sequence the text?
Secondly, Firstly, In addition to this, Therefore, To sum up.
Q7: List two reasons that support the author’s argument that television allows children to learn about the world around them.
Children can learn about the world around them because of documentaries. For example there could be one of the largest sea mammals or the most dangerous land creature in the world.And also only some kids are fortunate enough to be able to travel around the world but some are stuck in there homes.So that is where the television comes in.Teachers can show this in their classroom, showing the kids animals without actually being there!
Q8: Do you think Television is educational? Why or why not?
There are some ups and downs when it comes to television because you could go on different shows then kid shows.You could watch movies on televisions and get distracted because of how entertaining it is.Television is a good way to watch many shows without it being good for the human brain.I would say let your parents pick the show for you.
Television is educational though having many shows for kids.A majority of them has school subjects.This means that television is pretty much your digital school.Some is based on math, some on reading so on and so on.I would recommend you watch some animal documentaries because you learn about them as the article said.