Ginger Snaps: Teaching Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning {Freebie Included}

Hey there friends! I am absolutely terrible about keeping up with this little ole blog, but I wanted to come and share with you all that I will be making the move to middle school this year to teach 8th grade science! (I know, I am a crazy person.) I have taught third grade for so many years that I just needed a change. I am VERY excited about the change and I have tons of ideas rolling around in my head.

After diving into the standards, I knew that students would need to learn to make claims and support them with evidence. This seemed to be a large theme throughout the standards so I scoured Pinterest like any good teacher and found the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning method for teaching argument writing in science.

I developed a set of resources that I think any science teacher would find helpful in teaching students to use this method with their middle level students. I love this also because the method of writing can be used in any content area!

The unit includes:

A powerpoint to teach your students about the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning method
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning posters
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning doodle notes (filled in, guided, and blank versions)
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning guided notes mini posters for science notebooks
Anchor chart pieces
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning reference wheel
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning foldable
2 different graphic organizers
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning sorting activity
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Song lesson
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Candy lesson
2 Claim, Evidence, Reasoning passages with writing prompt to practice the writing method

Below is a preview of all of the resources that are included in the file! I hope you find them useful! I am excited to start my year off teaching students this important skill!