How to Find and Use Evidence within Persuasive Writing (view)
Units included with this Open Author resource:
- Part 1: Lesson Description
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- Learning goals:
- The students will be able to identify evidence in a document that is relevant to a specific argument claim or opinion., The students will be able to explain evidence using their own words., The students will be able to describe how evidence effectively supports the stated argument.
- Keywords:
- 21st Century Skills, Claims, Evidence, High School Education, Informational Texts, Style Her Empowered, Writing
- Alignment:
- AASL.CLS.1.1.1, AASL.CLS.1.2.2, AASL.CLS.1.1.4, AASL.CLS.1.1.5, AASL.CLS.1.3.4
- Part 2: Lesson
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- Keywords:
- 21st Century Skills, Claims, Evidence, High School Education, Informational Texts, Style Her Empowered, Writing
- Part 3: Supplementary Resources & References
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- Keywords:
- evidence, claims, informational texts, Style Her Empowered, 21st Century Skills, High School Education, Writing
Summary
The learner for this lesson is an adult in high school preparing to use persuasive techniques for the future. This is an English language arts lesson and the lesson introduces evidence as something that is necessary to support your claims within persuasive writing. Evidence helps demonstrate the relationship between ideas and words within the claim that should be the key ideas within the essay, passage, or to support a claim. Learners will practice using this evidence to support their claim about their topic, then they will find one piece of evidence from an article on that topic.