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Tracing & Evaluating Arguments - Snow Day Passage & Question Set FREEBIE

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5th - 7th, Homeschool
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Look no further if you're wondering how to help your students tackle standard RI.6.8. This high-interest argumentative text on Snow Days will help your students trace and evaluate arguments in no time. The engaging and relevant topic combined with scaffolded questions will help your students become well-prepared to analyze (& draft) arguments!

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Students will likely encounter argumentative texts more often than any other type of text in the real world! Teaching students to identify an author’s claim and evaluate the evidence and reasoning is a critical life skill.

What's included?

You'll receive one high-interest nonfiction passage that is

  • 800-1000 Lexile
  • 600 words in length
  • Common Core Standards-Based

Want more? To purchase three additional high-interest passages and question sets, please click HERE!

The passage comes with an audio file and a set of standards-aligned questions designed to provide opportunities for students to identify the author’s claim, evaluate the reasons and evidence used, and evaluate the effectiveness of each argument. (RI.6.8)

Use this argumentative text to give your students additional practice tracing and evaluating arguments in your regular ELA class, remedial reading class, or small groups as a station activity! They also make a great low-prep sub plan for you and your sub!

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Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):

RI.5.1, RI.5.8

RI.6.1, RI.6.8

RI.7.1, RI.7.8

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You might also like these argument mini-lessons:

Elements of an Argument Introduction

Smash, Boom Podcast Study

Author’s Argument Task Cards

Argument Quick Writes

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Purchase the Elements of an Argument Bundle to get this activity, plus the mini-lessons listed above! 

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Teaching Duration
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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