Knowledge and Skills Statement
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Demonstrated Proficiency of ELA.4.9.E.ii
A teacher may wish to pair SE 4.9.E.i with SE 4.9.E.ii and assess them together. With SE 4.9.E.i, students identify the claim in an argumentative text. Have students work with a partner to read a text in which someone is arguing a point and determine the claim made in the text. Once students have clearly established the claim, have them read the text again and identify how the author has used facts to support and oppose the argument.
Further Explanation
This SE requires students to recognize the facts used by the author to support an argument. Students should recognize the different positions presented in a text in order to explain how the author uses evidence to support an argument.