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Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains relevant information and valid inferences.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze an Argument: Practice 1 (English I Reading)
Analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence that supports or opposes an argument.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze the Relevance, Quality, and Credibility of Evidence
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence that supports or opposes an argument.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising for Effective Introductions and Conclusions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an introduction, conclusion, and controlling idea or thesis in an essay.
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Texas Gateway: Writing Counterarguments Based on Evidence (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay including counter-arguments that anticipate objections.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that contains relevant information and valid inferences.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Facs: Communication
This lesson plan is to help students identify good listening and talking skills. The different kinds of communication are verbal, written, and non-verbal. Included in this instructional activity are activities for each type of...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Bias in Language
This lesson focuses on bias in language such as gender and cultural bias and how to avoid them in public speaking. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e
Other
Bbc: H2g2 Circular Reasoning
Excellent definition and discussion of the term "Circular Reasoning," including a couple of very clear examples.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Elements of an Argument Test
Argument essay terms are included on this test over the following words: argument, claim, support, reasons, evidence, and counterargument. Six multiple choice questions are provided on this assessment.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Elements of an Argument Match
Argument terms are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words in this review exercise. for the following words: argument, claim, support, reasons, evidence, and counterargument.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Elements of an Argument Learn
In this activity, students will type the argument term associated with each definition or example. When given a definition or an example, students will practice identifying the following terms: argument, claim, support, reasons,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Elements of an Argument Flashcards
Argument essay terms are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: argument, claim, support, reasons, evidence, and counterargument.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Listening to Others and Building on Arguments
This resource explains how to listen carefully to someone to identify the points they are trying to make and how to use those points to add additional information to the discussion. Includes sentence starters to help frame what you want...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] An inference is a guess based on the information within a situation. It is valid if the guess is logical. This lesson teaches you how to check a completed draft for relevant...
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Texas Gateway: Analysis of Relative Values of Specific Data, Facts, and Ideas
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson we will talk about reviewing the facts and data you use to support your arguments and assessing the reliability of the sources you use.
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Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to make the information in your expository essays relevant and your inferences valid.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze Literary Essays' Inclusion of Personal Opinions and Facts
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify and discuss the use of facts, personal examples, and ideas and how they are woven into a literary essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze an Argument: Practice 1 (English I Reading)
In this lesson, you are going to practice analyzing the evidence that supports or opposes an argument. You are also going to learn to analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of the evidence so you can decide whether to accept the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 4.1: Persuasive Essay
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a persuasive essay by organizing arguments in a logical order, providing appropriate supporting details, clarifying main arguments, and identifying...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: Argument, Bias, and Persuasion
Collection of 43 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12)on the topic Argument, Bias, and Persuasion. Have students track arguments through texts as they examine logical reasoning, bias, and persuasive techniques such as emotional appeals, character...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Fact or Opinion
As part of the BBC's Skillswise unit, this resource covers the basics of separating fact from opinion through a worksheet, a factsheet, and a quiz.
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Blackboard: Author's Point of View (Attitude and Tone)
Learn about author's attitude and tone, and see examples of tone used to convey nostalgia, cynicism, and sentiment in a text. This is an excellent resource for helping students identify key words and phrases that give clues about the...