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Grade 10 English Language Arts — Writing an analytical paragraph

Turn a chart or a table into one paragraph that reports what it shows, without listing every figure on it.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.Sort each phrase by the job it does in the paragraph.

    Groups: Introduces the data · Compares two points · Sums up

    • The table gives
    • Taken together, these figures
    • On the whole
    • only half as many as
    • far more than in
    • As can be seen from the graph

  2. 2.Complete with one word beginning with r: Attendance fell in 2022 but ____ again in 2023.

  3. 3.Complete with one word: The number of readers reached its ____ in 2021, the highest point anywhere on the chart.

  4. 4.Complete with one word: The number of readers rose ____ 2019 and 2021.

  5. 5.Sort each sentence by where it belongs in an analytical paragraph.

    Groups: Opening · Body · Close

    • Taken together, these figures show a library in better health than five years ago.
    • The bar chart shows how many readers used the library each year from 2019 to 2023.
    • Overall, use of the library grew across the period.
    • After a dip in 2022, they recovered a little in 2023.
    • The chart below gives the number of readers over five years.
    • Numbers rose sharply between 2019 and 2021.

  6. 6.Which is the better sentence for an analytical paragraph?

    • a) The figure was forty, then seventy, then ninety-five, then sixty, then eighty-five.
    • b) I like the year 2021 best of all.
    • c) The chart is about library readers.
    • d) The figure almost doubled in two years before falling back.

  7. 7.The chart shows how many readers used the village library each year from 2019 to 2023. Tap the bar for the first year in which the number fell.

    Write the number of the part.

    12345

  8. 8.Which sentence reports a trend rather than a single figure?

    • a) There were sixty readers in 2022.
    • b) The number rose steadily until 2021 and then fell.
    • c) In 2021 the figure was ninety-five.
    • d) The chart has five bars on it.

Answer key — Grade 10 English Language Arts — Writing an analytical paragraph

  1. 1. The table gives → Introduces the data; As can be seen from the graph → Introduces the data; far more than in → Compares two points; only half as many as → Compares two points; Taken together, these figures → Sums up; On the whole → Sums up
  2. 2.
    • rose
    • recovered
    • rallied
    • rebounded
  3. 3.
    • peak
    • maximum
    • high
  4. 4. between
  5. 5. The bar chart shows how many readers used the library each year from 2019 to 2023. → Opening; The chart below gives the number of readers over five years. → Opening; Numbers rose sharply between 2019 and 2021. → Body; After a dip in 2022, they recovered a little in 2023. → Body; Overall, use of the library grew across the period. → Close; Taken together, these figures show a library in better health than five years ago. → Close
  6. 6. d) The figure almost doubled in two years before falling back.
  7. 7. 4 — 2022
  8. 8. b) The number rose steadily until 2021 and then fell.