(Re)designing Argumentation Writing Units for Grades 5-12

ebook An Overview of Persuasive Writing and How to Structure an Argument (Includes Tips for Teachers to Develop Writing Units)

By Kathy Tuchman Glass

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Writing plays a crucial part in all education disciplines, helping students to communicate their ideas to different audiences and extend their content knowledge. Developed fhttp://player.listenlive.co/35601/enor 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

    References and Resources

    Index

    (Re)designing Argumentation Writing Units for Grades 5-12