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📖 7th Grade · ELARI.7.8Unit 3: Informational reading: ideas & claims

Evaluating arguments

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🎯 Objective: Students assess whether reasoning is sound and evidence relevant.

Lesson outline

  1. Claim map.
  2. Evaluate.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one weakness.

Lesson 3 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RI.7.8

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 7 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Determine two or more central ideas
  • Trace and evaluate arguments

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Cite evidence📚 All 7th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informational reading: ideas & claims”

  1. Central ideas
  2. Interactions of people and events
  3. Evaluating arguments
  4. Comparing authors

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