Kentucky Reading and Writing C.6.1.b
The Standard
- C.6.1
- Compose arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Introduce claim(s), acknowledge opposing claims and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Text Types and Purpose
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students make a clear claim about a question people could disagree on. They put reasons with evidence that fits each one. They also name a reasonable opposing claim.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A reader can find the student's position right away and follow each reason to a fact or example. The student explains what someone on the other side might argue without changing their own position.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students name a topic, like school lunches, instead of taking a position. Others list facts without connecting them to reasons, or mistake an opposing claim for another reason supporting their position.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Should sixth graders have ten minutes of independent reading each day? Write a claim, two reasons with one example for each, and one opposing claim.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards with a claim, two reasons, matching evidence, and an opposing claim about longer lunch; have them arrange and label a paragraph outline.
Ask partners, 'Should our school allow phones at lunch?' Have each student state a claim and explain why someone might disagree.
Play Match the Proof: teams pair reason cards with evidence cards, then explain how each match supports a claim.
Use this week's lunch menu to write the cafeteria manager a change request with a claim, two reasons, menu evidence, and an opposing view.
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Related Standards
- C.7.1.b
Introduce claim(s), acknowledge opposing claims and counter/refute them and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
- C.6.1
Compose arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
- C.8.1.b
Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish opposing claim(s) and counter/refute them, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
- C.7.1
Compose arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
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