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This 2-page packet guides 8th graders through the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) framework using the concept of mantle convection. It includes scaffolding questions to support students in developing their scientific explanations.
Science
Grades 6-8
This 2-page guided notes packet helps 8th graders learn about argument and persuasive speech. It includes sentence starters and ample space for writing to support students with varying needs.
English Language Arts
This 1-page packet helps 7th graders practice identifying claim, evidence, and reasoning within a historical text. It's designed for a short, focused lesson to build scientific and argumentative writing skills.
A 1-page worksheet designed for 3rd graders to practice constructing scientific explanations using claim, evidence, and reasoning. It includes sentence frames to support students as they develop these critical thinking skills.
Grades 3-5
This 3-page packet provides 6th graders with practice in constructing claims supported by evidence and reasoning. It's designed to build critical thinking and scientific argumentation skills.
This 2-page packet provides a STAAR-style ECR prompt and rubric for 9th graders to practice argumentative writing. It is designed to be used as a standalone assessment or integrated into a writing workshop.
Grades 9-12
This 1-page packet guides 10th graders through analyzing Chinua Achebe's use of characterization in Chapters 1-5 of Things Fall Apart. Students will work collaboratively to construct a Claim-Data-Warrant response that explores the complexities of Igbo culture and resists simplistic narratives.
This 1-page packet guides 7th graders through constructing a scientific argument using the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) framework. It includes a model response and prompts for students to practice their own CER construction.
This 1-page packet provides a prompt for 9th-grade biology students to practice constructing scientific arguments using the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) framework. It's designed to build critical thinking and scientific writing skills.
English Language Arts, Science
This 3-page packet provides scaffolded support for 7th graders to practice constructing evidence-based arguments using the CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) framework. It includes sentence frames and graphic organizers to support students with writing challenges.
This 5-page packet helps 7th-grade science students practice Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) skills, specifically focusing on chemical reactions. It includes scaffolding for struggling readers and special education students, along with discussion prompts to deepen understanding.
This 2-page handout guides 7th graders through preparing for a mock trial debate. Students will organize evidence and arguments to defend a suspect and prosecute another, building critical thinking and persuasive writing skills.
English Language Arts, Social Studies
This 2-page packet helps 7th graders practice writing the reasoning section of a CER (Claim-Evidence-Reasoning) response. It includes sample reasoning sections for students to analyze and a rubric for self- or peer-assessment, with differentiated versions for accelerated and struggling learners.
This 1-page worksheet provides 9th graders with practice in constructing scientific arguments using the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning framework. It includes a graphic organizer to support students in developing their explanations.
This 1-page worksheet helps 6th graders practice constructing a CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) paragraph about healthy lifestyle habits. It guides students through each component of the CER framework.
This 1-page worksheet introduces 7th graders to the CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) framework for scientific explanations. It provides a clear model and practice opportunities to build critical thinking and scientific writing skills.
This 5-page packet provides differentiated small-group activities for 5th graders to practice identifying claim, evidence, and counterpoint in texts about technology. It includes scaffolding for struggling readers and extension activities for advanced learners.
This 2-page packet provides practice with the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) framework for 9th graders. It is designed to support English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learners by simplifying language and providing clear examples.
This 8-page packet helps 6th graders practice writing arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence, aligning with ELA.6.C.1.1. It includes prompts for introducing claims, organizing evidence, acknowledging alternative perspectives, and using transitions.
This 2-page worksheet helps 10th graders practice identifying textual evidence and crafting strong claim statements. It includes scaffolding for students who need extra support and prompts for deeper analysis.
This 1-page FRQ practice prompt asks 11th and 12th graders to analyze constitutional interpretations of federalism, building skills in argumentation and evidence-based writing. It is designed for a single class period.
Social Studies, English Language Arts
This 3-page packet introduces 3rd graders to the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) framework using a familiar science context. It includes prompts to help students articulate their scientific thinking and can be used for partner work.
This one-page summary condenses a key argument from the Federalist Papers, focusing on the challenges of governing a large republic. It's designed for 8th-grade honors students to build critical reading and analytical skills related to early American political thought.
This 3-paragraph packet helps 6th graders practice identifying claim, evidence, and reasoning within scientific explanations. It's designed for a quick practice session to reinforce understanding of the CER framework.
This 1-page packet provides 10 claim statements for 4th graders to practice supporting with details. It aligns with ELA and Science standards and vocabulary from Wit and Wisdom Grade 4 Module 1.
A 1-page letter template for 3rd graders to request donations for a school fundraiser. This resource helps students practice persuasive writing and formal letter composition.
A 1-page worksheet for 4th graders to practice the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) framework using a simple earthquake simulation with sugar cubes. This activity helps students develop scientific argumentation skills.
This 1-page packet provides 6th graders with three short argumentative paragraphs to practice identifying claim, evidence, and reasoning. It's designed for a 30-minute lesson to build analytical reading skills.
This 1-page packet guides 7th graders in writing a concise CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) argument about the gas released by a bath bomb. It helps students analyze evidence to support their claims.
This 2-page packet guides 7th graders through the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) framework. It builds critical thinking and scientific argumentation skills with clear examples and sentence frames.
This 1-day activity kit guides 9th graders through a mock trial based on Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Students will engage in critical thinking, argumentation, and public speaking as they take on roles such as judge, prosecution, defense, and jury.
This 2-page assignment guides 9th graders through analyzing the emotional impact of poetry and its connection to theme development in Fahrenheit 451. Students will practice making a claim, supporting it with evidence, and providing reasoning, while also reflecting on personal emotional responses to art.
This 5-page packet guides 7th graders through the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) framework to answer the essential question: Do my organ systems work together to keep me alive? It includes a reading passage with three examples of system interdependence and a structured template for students to practice scientific argumentation.
This 2-page packet helps 6th graders practice writing persuasive essays by focusing on making claims and supporting them with evidence from a text. It includes scaffolding for struggling writers and emphasizes the use of complete sentences with relevant quotes.
This 1-page Google Forms assignment helps 8th graders practice identifying and applying claim, evidence, and reasoning. It's designed for a quick formative assessment of student understanding.
This 5-page packet helps 6th graders analyze arguments, focusing on identifying claims and evidence. It includes multiple-choice questions to assess understanding of ri.6.8.
This 3-page packet provides 9th graders with practice in constructing scientific explanations using the CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) framework. It focuses on applying CER to differentiate between plant and animal cells, building critical thinking and scientific argumentation skills.
This 5E-model packet guides 6th graders through an investigation of how mass affects a car's speed down a ramp. Students will practice making predictions, identifying variables, collecting and analyzing data, and using the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) framework to explain their findings.
This 3-page packet helps 4th graders understand how to support claim statements with evidence. It includes two graphic organizers: one for finding supporting details and another for identifying the main idea from details. The packet aligns with ELA and Science standards and vocabulary from Wit and Wisdom Grade 4 Module 1.
This 2-page packet guides 9th graders in making claims and finding textual evidence, using chapters 2, 4, and 7 of Trevor Noah's 'Born a Crime.' It includes specific claims for students to analyze and prompts to help them locate supporting evidence within the text.
This 1-page worksheet helps 11th+ grade students brainstorm reasons for their claim on the topic of online punishment severity. It guides them to first state their position and then generate supporting arguments.
This 3-page practice set helps 8th graders develop their ability to use the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) framework for literary analysis. It includes three levels of difficulty and an answer key to support student learning.
This 2-page packet guides 11th-grade+ students through a peer review of persuasive speeches, focusing on the use of ethos, pathos, and logos. It's designed as a collaborative writing activity to enhance critical analysis and revision skills.
This 1-page packet guides 9th graders in analyzing how authors structure ideas and claims within a text. It focuses on identifying how specific sentences, paragraphs, or sections develop and refine these arguments, building critical reading and analytical skills.
This 1-page packet guides 9th graders in identifying strong arguments within presentations. Students will learn to evaluate the use of experts, credible authority, and scientific data to support claims, building critical thinking and analytical skills.
This 40-minute packet guides 1st graders through constructing social studies arguments using a gradual release model. It focuses on identifying topics, analyzing evidence, and supporting claims, with scaffolds to support WIDA Level 4 learners moving to Level 5.
Grades K-2
This 4-station packet guides 8th graders through analyzing the components of an argumentative essay, focusing on thesis, evidence, reasoning, counterclaims, and conclusions. Students will discuss their findings and record them on poster boards, building critical reading and analytical writing skills.
A short writing packet in which 5th graders summarize "The Seventh Man" and then argue whether readers should recommend it, using quoted evidence and six target vocabulary words. It builds summarizing, claim-and-evidence argumentation, and conventions such as infinitive phrases, and it is designed for a single extended reading-and-writing block.
A four-day set of morning messages for 3rd-grade reading level sheltered ELA classes with students at WIDA proficiency 3.0, focused on claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) and persuasive writing. Each message follows the teacher's sample length and closes with a casual morning greeting prompt that invites students to talk with partners and practice WIDA Standard 1.
A preassessment packet for 11th grade and up that presents a 2024-2025 Los Angeles policy brief on housing and homelessness, public safety, and fiscal constraints, asking students to construct claim-evidence-reasoning responses about the mayor's key issues. It builds argumentative writing and the ability to use sources to support claims, and it works well as a diagnostic before a unit on structured argument.
A practice set for 6th graders in which students read a table of school lunch survey results (200 respondents) and build claims supported by data. It develops data literacy, percentage calculation, and claim-evidence reasoning, with a Data Tip callout and Quick Check questions to scaffold the work before a separate analysis page.
Mathematics, English Language Arts
A scaffolded vocabulary and argument-writing packet built around three articles about food and nutrition, designed for young readers working toward 6th-grade argumentative writing standards. Students learn key words like nutrition, hunger, and seconds through sentence frames and drawings before tackling the articles and an essay.
Grades K-2,6-8
A student-facing slide deck of about 15 to 20 slides that teaches 8th graders how to plan a persuasive argument using a six-step outline, moving from a hook and claim through evidence and counterarguments. Students practice with a take-a-stand warm-up and short guided activities, with the gradual-release structure building from modeling to independent planning.
A six-week set of five-minute daily bell ringers for 7th grade ELA, printed in three two-week segments to prepare students for the Unit 2 language test. Weeks 1-2 focus on adjective and noun clauses and their functions in sentences, with short identification and sentence-combining tasks that include a few lines for written responses. Later segments move to complex sentences, claims and organization, transitions, and concluding statements.
A concise study guide that defines the four rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos) and shows each one at work in a classic speech and a modern ad. It builds skills in identifying persuasive strategies and explaining how they affect an audience, and it's well suited to a single 45-minute block or as reference material during speech and advertisement analysis.
A station-based reading packet for 9th graders that examines a study linking ultra-processed foods to cancer incidence, paired with graphs for data interpretation. It builds close reading, graph analysis, and evidence-based reasoning, and includes a set of guiding questions for the text and graphs.
Science, English Language Arts
A visual reference sheet that introduces ethos, pathos, and logos through everyday persuasion examples, a key-terms box, and a side-by-side comparison table. It builds students' ability to identify and name persuasive appeals in ads, speeches, and writing for 6th graders.
A Google Slides trivia game for 6th graders that introduces argument, claims, facts versus opinions, and identifying an author's main point through competitive, categorized rounds. It opens with a warm-up hook and moves through lightning-round practice, so students build ELA.6.R.2.4 skills in a playful, low-stakes setting.
A reading-and-writing practice set for 9th graders built around an informational text on how screen use and social media affect teen sleep. Students read the passage, identify claims and supporting evidence, and practice explaining how that evidence supports a conclusion, building the claim-evidence-reasoning skills needed for strong argumentative writing.
A set of medium-sized anchor charts for 7th graders that breaks down how to trace an argument from claim to reasons to evidence, aligned to NC Standard RI 7.8. The charts build skills in identifying claims, signal words, and whether reasoning links hold, and they are designed to stay posted for ongoing reference during nonfiction reading and discussion.
A 4th-grade morning work packet built around a short informational passage on how video games like simulations can teach science, math, and problem solving. Students practice writing claims supported by reasons and evidence from one cited source, with a graphic organizer to break the task into manageable steps.
English Language Arts, Computer Science
A short, student-choice writing packet in which 9th graders pick one of three questions about their Blue Lake fishing game and answer it with a Claim-Evidence-Reasoning response built from their own data table. It builds scientific argument writing, analysis of shared-resource trade-offs, and connections between a classroom model and real-world sustainability.
A slide-deck presentation for 6th graders that teaches how to build a scientific argument using claim, evidence, and reasoning, framed around a playful case about an alien dad and a bag of Doritos. It follows a 5E arc with notice-and-wonder prompts and speaker notes, making it well suited to a whole-class lesson of about 45 minutes that builds scientific writing and argumentation skills.
