- 136 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
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
Frequently asked questions
Information
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Examining the Fundamentals of 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