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Common Core Standards: Teaching Argument Writing | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher - 1 views

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argumentative writing commoncore ela Ted TED-Ed

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  • argument writing must present a strong claim and support that claim with “sufficient evidence” and relevant “valid reasoning.”
  • First, select a high interest topic.
  • TED Talks: Get Kids Thinking
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  • Collaborize Classroom: Extend the Discussion Online to Engage All Voices
  • Face-to-Face Conversations: Exploring Differences
  • Google Docs: Research & Organize Ideas Teach students to find credible resources and analyze those resources to support their claims. 
  • YouTube: Flip Your Explanatio
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Lego Just Got Told Off By A 7-Year-Old Girl - 1 views

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lego writing persuasive opinion claim

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    Love this! True, I agree with her, but this is just an awesome example of opinion writing with supported arguments (claims backed by evidence) by a 7 year old. -- Love that she is writing for a real purpose and audience! What real purpose could we have our students write for? And actually mail the letters (and publish on our blogs).
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achievethecore.org :: Text-Dependent Questions - 1 views

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close-reading commoncore text-dependent questions

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    The Common Core State Standards expect students to use evidence from texts to present careful analyses, well-defended claims, and clear information. A central tool to help students develop these skills is text-dependent questions: questions that can only be answered by referring back to the text. On this page teachers can find tools to help write and evaluate text-dependent questions, as well as a link to lesson materials with examples of text-dependent questions included.
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At an East San Jose high school, students react to new Common Core test | EdSource Today - 0 views

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Smarter Balanced commoncore assessment pilot

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  • “With this test, you had to make your point and explain your answer,” said Desiree Jones. “In the future, you may have to do the same thing – back up your claim –where you work. You can’t just say, ‘That’s good.’ You’ll need to say what you think and why.”
  • Citing evidence, defending a position Desiree was referring to the performance assessment part of the test. It represents the biggest change from the state tests.
  • They were asked to take a position, using evidence based on what they read. They could use a split screen to cut and paste from the articles – a task that some students found difficult to do, especially for math problems, using their portable Chromebooks  – and they could write as much and take as much time as they wanted.
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  • Students said there were annoying aspects to doing a test on a computer, but overall they said they preferred it. They said it was cumbersome to type out a formula; they complained there was no scratch paper to solve math problems (actually, scratch paper is allowed, but a proctor on the first day misread the rules).
  • “Geometry concepts are hard to remember,” said Daisy De La Cruz, who is now taking Calculus. Desiree said, “In the past, questions went gradually from easy to hard. This one was jumbled.” Field tests are designed to test the validity of questions, not simulate actual tests that students will take starting next year. As a result, there was an intentional randomness in the question selection and order that caught students by surprise. Questions ranged from pre-algebra they took in middle school to graphing problems in pre-calculus, students said.
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