This book provides 20 ready-to-use lessons for writing arguments. The first part of the book explains the rationale for teaching argument writing, presents tips on creating a classroom culture of argumentation, and offers classroom tools, activities, templates, and rubrics. Part 2 presents 20 lessons, grouped in sections on everyday arguments, three elements of arguments (claim, data, warrant), arguments about texts, and arguments about life choices. Each lesson gives background, materials needed, steps, worksheet exercises, and a one-paragraph example of student writing with annotations. The workbook-style lessons include space for student writing. The final chapter gives teachers more guidelines on using the book. A companion web site offers instructor resources. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Better Arguments Make Better Students — and Better Citizens
The ability to make effective arguments is not only necessary in students’ academic lives, it’s a transferable skill essential to students’ future success as critical thinkers and contributing members of society. But how do we engage students and ensure they understand argument writing’s fundamental components
This book shows the way, with ready-to-implement lessons that make argument writing topical and relevant. Students form arguments about subjects of interest, and then reflect on the arguments’ organization, giving them reusable structural models.
Complete with guidance on applying the lessons’ techniques in a unit-wide context, Developing Writers of Argument offers a practical approach for instructing in this crucial aspect of students’ development.
