Knowledge and Skills Statement
Consider pairing SE 3.9.E.i with SE 3.9.E.iii and asses both SEs at the same time. With SE 3.9.E.iii, students identify the intended audience or reader of an argumentative text. Have students work with a partner to read an argumentative text and identify the claim and intended audience of the text. Ask partner groups to share the claim and intended audience of the text. Require students to provide text evidence to support their ideas.
Further Explanation
This assessment example requires students to understand that argumentative texts have unique characteristics such as a claim, an intended audience, and the use of facts over opinions. Students must determine the position or arguable statement that the author holds about the topic or issue being discussed in the text.
Research
Nunez-Eddy, E., Wang, X., & Chen, Y.-C. (2018). Engaging in argumentation: Strategies for early elementary and English language learners. Science and Children, 56(2), 51+. Retrieved from https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A552763085/PROF?u=tea&sid=PROF&xid=45f308cb
Summary: This article describes argument strategies and activities that can be integrated within the 5E model (Bybee 1997) and demonstrates how argumentation can be assimilated into elementary classrooms. In this lesson exemplar, 25 students in a first-grade English Language Development classroom (all of whom were ELLs) were learning about animals and natural habitats. Because this class contained quite a few students in gifted education, a second-grade standard was chosen to facilitate differentiation and meet the needs of more advanced learners.