Evaluating Sources: Reading Unit 7, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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Evaluating Sources is Unit 7 of Reading Arguments, Writing Positions: Grade 7 English Language Arts (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 64 pages.

• Authority as a credibility criterion tied to a specific claim
• Primary vs. secondary source classification
• Currency as a claim-dependent, not universal, criterion
• Corroboration versus citation as distinct relationships between two sources
• Synthesis of multi-format sources on one research question
• Sufficiency as a property of a source SET rather than a single source
• Credibility ranking and written justification across a disagreeing source set
• Diagnostic application of credibility criteria to an unrehearsed source pair
• Generalization of credibility criteria beyond the taught source formats
• Unit 1 vocabulary: sufficiency and counterclaim

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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