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Strategies for teaching argumentative writing integrating reading and writing. Be careful to avoid faulty logic when defending claims. With regard to the reading standards for literacy in historysocial. According to the national common core standards, by the end of high school, students should be able to write arguments to support claims with clear reason and relevant evidenceand they should be able to do so well. Pdf teaching argument writing grades 6 12 download full. Range of writing provides multiple examples of student writing within a grade across a wide variety of content areas, curriculum units, conditions for writing, and purposes. Faulty logic means using evidence that is fuzzy, exaggerated, illogical, or false. Expository writing is an increasingly important skill for elementary, middle, and high school students to master. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a. An argument is a chain of reasons, supported by evidence, that support a claim. Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. Directly teaching vocabulary improves reading comprehension and increases subject area. Supporting claims with relevant evidence and clear reasoning george hillocks jr in this book, george hillocks teaches us not only what an argument is, but how to teach it and why we should.
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