The Research Argument: Position, Evidence, Counterclaim: Reading Unit 8, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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The Research Argument: Position, Evidence, Counterclaim is Unit 8 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, 65 pages.

• The difference between a genuinely debatable research question and a settled-fact or single-answer question
• Lateral reading as a method for verifying source credibility
• Paraphrase with attribution versus plagiarized restatement
• Sufficiency of a multi-source evidence set, applied from the Unit 1 sufficiency concept
• Synthesis of multiple sources into one claim-driven paragraph
• Rebuttal of a counterclaim using cited evidence, the top stage of the Unit 1-6 counterclaim progression
• Criteria for a fair test between disagreeing sources on an unfamiliar topic
• Counterclaim-handling technique in a professionally published argumentative text
• The Unit 1 argument vocabulary set (claim, evidence, counterclaim, sufficiency)
• The name/address/rebut-with-evidence classification applied to a peer’s draft writing

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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