Overview
Writing plays a crucial part in all education disciplines, helping students to communicate their ideas to different audiences and extend their content knowledge. Developed for teachers, curriculum designers, and literacy coaches, this user-friendly guide offers practical recommendations, strategies, and tips for establishing argumentation units of instruction that empower students to artfully and logically present and convince others of their position.
Benefits
- Examine the characteristic elements of an argument and the benefits of teaching students to work through how to structure an argument.
- Examine an argumentation unit map, its learning goals and guiding questions, and then develop cohesive units based in argumentation writing.
- Complete exercises throughout the book that will help to create consistent, engaging units that will prepare students to take on any writing challenge that asks them to exercise their persuasive-writing skills.
- Design a full lesson on argumentation, from establishing author’s purpose, to supporting a thesis with evidence, to presenting counter-arguments.
- Download templates, checklists, rubrics, and student activities useful for designing an argumentation unit and guiding lessons.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Preparing for Argumentation
Chapter 2: Building an Argumentation Unit Map
Chapter 3: Formulating a Pre- and Culminating Assessment and Establishing Criteria for Success
Chapter 4: Writing Engaging Introductions Using Gradual Release of Responsibility
Chapter 5: Designing Lessons
Epilogue
Appendix A: List of Figures and Tables
Appendix B: Professional and Student Resources
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