- Subject
- ELA
- Topic
- Author claims, Supporting reasons
- Resource types
- Posters, Anchor Charts
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- RI.1.8
Product description
From the author
Help students identify an author’s point and the reasons that support it. The five-page PDF includes a completed reference chart, a fill-in version, a color-coded Dogs Make Good Pets example and discussion sentence frames, plus a creator page.
Model the relationship between the claim and its reasons using the supplied passage. Then use the reference and frames with another text you choose, on a bulletin board or in reading notebooks.
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anchor charts
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify an author’s claim
Identify reasons supporting that claim
Teaching tips
Ask what the author wants readers to think before locating the supporting reasons.
Skills covered
Identifying claims
Connecting reasons to a point
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
- RI.1.8
Core concepts
Author’s claim
Supporting reasons
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