Supporting Claims with Evidence | Lesson | Examples | Activity

Convincing our students to support their claims with evidence can feel like losing battle sometimes. Often our students come to us with a very vague understanding of what support really means. They need concrete examples and plenty of practice in order to feel confident supporting claims in their essays.

This lesson, poster set, and active game use a food-themed acronym (B.A.G.E.L.S.) to help students remember the types of evidence and reasoning they can use to support claims in their writing.

B - Background Information

A - Analogies

G - Groundbreaking Experiments

E - Expert Opinions

L - Logical Reasoning

S - Statistics and Facts

Examples of each type of support are included so students can see how it would look in a real essay or research paper.

What's included?

• An engaging PowerPoint lesson that introduces B.A.G.E.L.S. support, explains it, and gives examples.
• B.A.G.E.L.S. Posters with additional examples that students can reference as they write their own essays.
• A fun and active review game that sparks debate and gives students practice finding and using B.A.G.E.L.S. support.

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