How To Analyze An Argument Unit - Evaluate Arguments - Elements of an Argument

An interactive way to teach your middle school students how to analyze and evaluate argumentative text is here! Save tons of time with this easy-to-use set of TWENTY-FIVE printable and digital resources that come with everything the teacher needs to Teach, Reteach, and Enrich based on R.CCR.8/RI.8. Plus these materials are fully differentiated and engaging! Comes with editable lesson plans!

Objectives:

1. Students will learn key argument analysis vocabulary

2. Students will learn a 3-step process to analyze arguments in nonfiction. (This lesson will be the foundation for students to build on as they analyze additional texts throughout the school year!)

3. Students will practice applying the 3-step process with project-based learning menus (printable) or by playing a digital game.

4. Students will be assessed on the skill with a text-based quiz that uses standardized test questions.

What's included in the PRINTABLE version:

VOCABULARY

✅ Vocabulary worksheets

✅ Vocabulary Word Wall Cards

✅ Vocabulary Dominoes Game

DIFFERENTIATED NOTES

✅ Graphic organizers

✅ Original texts: "Should College Athletes Be Paid?" and "Pay College Athletes!"

✅ Pixanotes (interactive guided notes) that teach a 3-step process that students can use with the included texts and any other text.

➡️Level 1: Fully printed content and pre-printed pictures

➡️Level 2: Fully printed picture flaps and fill-in-the-blanks for students

➡️Level 3: Pre-printed content and picture flaps that need to be positioned by the student.

➡️ Level 4: Fill in the blanks for content and picture flaps that need to be positioned by the student.

✅ PowerPoint that matches the notes

DIFFERENTIATED PRACTICE

✅ Processing menu so students can practice what they've learned (and you can differentiate the processing of the content.)

✅ Quiz

✅ Answer Keys

✅ Enhancement Menu for students who scored less than 80% on the quiz and need more practice (differentiated products)

✅ A video to use for reteaching that can be placed on any school password-protected learning management system like Google Classroom or Canvas.

✅ Enrichment Menu for students who scored 80% or better (differentiated products)

✅ A Printable Maze that can be used for extra practice or remediation!

LESSON PLANS

✅ EDITABLE lesson plans (in bonus file)

✅ Day-by-Day Teacher Script (in bonus file)

✅ Introduction to the unit (in bonus file)

What's included in the DIGITAL version:

DIGITAL VOCABULARY

This digital resource was made using Google Slides/Google Forms and includes:

✅Teacher's Guide with directions and links to share on any learning management system such as Google Classroom, Canvas, and more!

✅ Digital Vocabulary graphic organizers with 10 key words: evaluate, argument, claim, assess, reasoning, valid, relevant, sufficient, position, support.

✅ Matching Digital Puzzle (Secret Picture Tile) for Vocabulary Practice

✅ Self-Grading Vocabulary Quiz

DIGITAL NOTES (LESSON)

This digital resource was made using Google Slides and includes:

✅Teacher's Guide with directions and links to share on any learning management system such as Google Classroom, Canvas, and more!

✅ Four versions of Pixanotes® each with a different level of scaffolding:

➡️Level 1: Fully printed content and pre-printed pictures

➡️Level 2: Fully printed picture flaps and fill-in-the-blanks for students

➡️Level 3: Pre-printed content and picture flaps that need to be positioned by the student.

➡️ Level 4: Fill in the blanks for content and picture flaps that need to be positioned by the student.

✅ Moveable piece picture flaps for levels 3 and 4

✅ Text boxes already placed into the notes

✅ Editable directions

✅ Video that matches the notes. It is embedded into a slide with the student notes, but a link is also provided.

✅ A self-grading quick check (quiz) on the notes

DIGITAL PRACTICE: (You could use one for practice and one for remediation or enrichment!)

This digital game was made using Google Slides and includes:

✅ One self-checking game that goes over the 3 step process and ends with students building a paragraph using an embedded text and their newfound argument analysis skills.

✅ A Teacher's Guide

The digital ESCAPE GAME was made using Google Forms and Google Slides and includes:

✅ A Teacher's Guide

✅ The text of The Gettysburg Address is embedded into the puzzle slides.

✅ Google Form for all the "locks". (This is the only thing teachers need to assign!)

✅ 5 puzzles on Google Slides linked in the Google Form for the locks

✅ Answer Key

DIGITAL QUIZ (ASSESSMENT)

This digital resource was made using Google Forms and includes:

✅ Teacher's Guide with directions and a link so that you can share the quiz on any learning management system such as Google Classroom, Canvas, and more!

✅ Link to the Google Form with embedded text on which the standardized test questions are based.

➡️ EDITABLE Lesson Plans for both DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Resources in the Bonus File! ⬅️

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a great resource for argumentative text! I loved the organization of the bundle and how the activities are interactive and different!- Ana P.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I loved this resource because it really had my students thinking about the information they were reading. They were working in pairs and I could hear their discussions as to why or why not the answer was correct. - Diana P.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I absolutely love all of Mrs. Spangler's products. This is an amazing product to help teach argumentative writing. It has everything you will need and then some. -Tiffany C.

Supports Common Core Standards:

CCSSCCRA.R.8

Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

Your students will love the variety of engaging activities and you'll love that it is already differentiated and ready to teach!

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