Social Studies Critical Thinking Skills Poster - Claim Thesis Writing Tool

Help your students' critical thinking and argumentative writing with this claim and reasoning continuum line display.

By putting academic language within eyesight, your students will confidently and instantly make precise claims.

You'll use this tool for everything from daily bellringers to end-of-term research papers.

Greatness is articulating a nuanced and confident position.

Gift your students the words to develop into sophisticated thinkers and writers AND fill that empty space under your whiteboard!

Student: "The author is angry." You: "How angry?"

Student: "They created change during the era." You: "How much change?"

Student: "Free speech is an important right in America." You: "How important?"

And point to your Argument Qualifier continuum line.

Instantly, your students will upgrade their emerging thinking and offer a much stronger position. They had the higher-level idea all along, they just didn't have the word. And as teachers, we sometimes forget that.

Now they will have the words thanks to this use-every-day tool.

Included are:

• Print-and-go PDF of 3 different font options to fit most classroom spaces
• Editable Google Slides file with over 25 quantifier adverbs words that represent a continuum of positions
• Display signage options to guide student thinking
• Handout reference sheet for students to have their own copy
• Tips for selecting fonts, printing, and displaying to customize it perfectly for your classroom

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This listing is for one license for regular, non-commercial classroom use by a single teacher only. Commercial use like online teaching (ex. Outschool) or sharing with other teachers (ex. shared drive, in a Facebook group, in a professional development training) is strictly prohibited.

By purchasing a license to this resource, you have access to all future updates at no cost, available under “My Purchases." Multiple and transferable licenses are available for purchase. PDF files are uneditable, other files have editing abilities, unless otherwise stated. All files are protected under federal copyright laws.

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