Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.6.R.2.4
The Standard
Track the development of an argument, identifying the types of reasoning used.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students follow an argument from its main claim through each reason, piece of evidence, and conclusion. They identify how the author connects evidence to claims, including cause and effect, analogy, or generalization.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can map the claim, reasons, evidence, and conclusion in order. They can label the reasoning, such as cause and effect, analogy, or generalization, and explain how it supports the claim.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list the claim and evidence without explaining how the ideas connect. They may also confuse evidence types, such as facts or examples, with reasoning types, such as cause and effect or analogy.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short argument and ask them to number its steps, label the reasoning used, and explain one evidence-to-claim connection.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups argument sentence strips to arrange as claim, reasons, evidence, and conclusion, then label the reasoning used.
Ask students to write which reason is strongest in a short argument and explain how its evidence supports the claim.
Play a reasoning match game where students pair evidence-to-claim statements with cause and effect, analogy, or generalization cards.
Examine a school rule proposal and chart how each reason and piece of evidence builds the argument.
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