Argumentative Writing Mentor Text FREEBIE Activity, Graphic Organizers, CCSS
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This is a sample for my argumentative writing unit and bundle!
This mentor text activity is perfect for modeling argumentative essays! It is also great practice for students to identify the parts of an argument essay!
Included:
- Mentor Text: "The Dangers of Trash in the Ocean"
- Graphic organizer/handout to go with the text--students identify the parts of the text (claim, reasons, evidence, counterclaim, refute of counterclaim, re-state claim). There are two organizers--one for higher and one for lower students.
Ways to use this FREEBIE:
1. It is great to use this activity in the classroom as practice for identifying the parts of an argumentative essay.
- Begin by reading the text to your students as they read along.
- Once they have read the text, ask them as a group to identify the: hook, claim, reasons, evidence, counterclaim, refuting of the counterclaim, and re-stating of the claim. Highlight these in different colors. *This is just a preference because I like for my students to see all of the different parts of the essay in different, more identifiable colors.*
- After highlighting as a group, have the students to fill in their graphic organizers independently.
- At the end, have them to glue both the text and the organizer into an interactive notebook, *if you use interactive notebooks.*
- When the students are actually writing an essay, encourage them to have this out as a model and a reference.
2. Have students to identify the parts completely independently without any group highlighting beforehand.
3. You could also have the students to highlight and fill in the organizer independently.
4. This can be used as an assessment to check understanding for argument writing.
I hope you enjoy this free resource!
For other argumentative resources, check out:
Introduction to Argumentative Writing
Argumentative Writing Graphic Organizers
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