Tracing and Testing an Argument: Reading Unit 1, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Tracing and Testing an Argument is Unit 1 of Reading Arguments, Writing Positions: Grade 7 English Language Arts (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 56 pages.

• The structure of claim and reason in a persuasive paragraph
• The definitions of claim, reason, evidence, counterclaim, and sufficiency
• The sufficiency of evidence in a marked persuasive text (relevance, amount, credibility)
• The argument structure and evidence sufficiency of a novel, unscaffolded persuasive text
• The necessity test for textual evidence supporting an inference
• The divergence between an argument’s persuasiveness and its logical sufficiency
• The counterclaim-acknowledgment structure in argumentative writing
• The sufficiency of evidence in an argument from a domain and era not covered in instruction
• The generalizability of the sufficiency framework beyond persuasive-essay genre

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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