Argumentative Text Sets Reading Passages Use as Mentor Texts for Debates

Argumentative Text Sets that are print and go to!

Are you looking for argumentative texts paired passages to help your students analyze argumentative writing and essays? This print-and-go set is what you need for your upper elementary classroom!

Help your students read with a critical eye as they decide if they are convinced by the argumentative texts that they read.

This argumentative text pack includes three sets of original passages designed to engage students as they read and collect evidence and elements of argumentative texts. Each set tells both sides of the debate, one for and one against.

After students read both passages on the same topic, they decide which one convinced them more with more supportive reasons, evidence, and examples.

Everything you need is included: 3 sets of paired passages, anchor charts, graphic organizers, questions, and student practice pages!

Each set of paired passages follows the same format to scaffold:

• read the passage
• find the claim, reasons, intended audience
• highlight the counterclaim
• section to write about the supporting reasons (back)
• two reader response questions (back)

Also included are four anchor charts to guide your instruction and teach students how to write a nonfiction summary. Anchor charts included are:

• Fiction Summaries
• How to Write a Summary
• Understanding Summaries
• Try Using SWBST

3 student activity pages are included to help students understand key terms related to argumentative texts.

• key term sort
• key term definition match up
• key term write the definition

The activities in this pack are a great way to lay the groundwork of argumentative writing instruction before students write their own argumentative essays.

This product includes both a print and digital version.

CONTENTS:

✓ Link for Google Slide use and digital directions

✓ Teacher Suggestions and Notes

✓ Anchor Charts: full page and notebook size

✓ Student Activities: Sort, Definition Match Up, Breaking it Down

✓ 3 Sets of Argumentative Paired Passages:

• The Great Recess Debate
• Should We Have Zoos
• What is Too Much TV?

✓ Bonus Graphic Organizers

✓ Bonus Argumentative Question Sheets: use with any text

✓ Suggested Answer Keys

You will also love:

• Summarizing Fiction
• Compare and Contrast
• Making Inferences
• Finding the Main Idea
• Text Structure
• Author's Purpose

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