Claim
What is a claim?
A claim is your idea about the text you believe is true.
What is reasoning?
The words from the text that prove your idea is correct.
What is evidence?
Your reason for believing your idea is correct.
How do we make a claim based on different topics?
Focus on the texts individually to form a claim for each one.
When do we apply our knowledge of claim, reasoning, and evidence?
When reading a story or any kind of text.
Why are claims important?
They show reading comprehension skills.
What does reasoning support?
Why the claim was made.
What does evidence support?
The claim.
Does the topic of the text affect how we make a claim, reason, and find evidence?
No, we use those skills in the same way for every topic.
What is the outcome of your analysis?
Your idea about the story.
What does a claim represent?
The main idea of a passage.
What does reasoning lead us to?
A conclusion.
Why is evidence important?
It proves the claim to be true and it makes the claim more convincing.
How can we use evidene to support the claim made from the topic?
We can use the variety of details in the passage to relate back to the claim.
What is literary analysis?
Reading to interpret the meaning of the author's writing choices.
What is the difference between a claim and an opinion?
An opinion comes from your feelings. A claim comes from your thinking.
Why is reasoning important to include?
It helps us process and think through the claim and evidence that we chose.
What is a tool we can use to find evidence in a story?
Annotating.
What tool can we use to help us when using claims, evidence, and reasoning?
When does writing become more persuasive?
When the reader believes your claim.
How would someone question your claim?
There is not enough reasoning or evidence.
What is a key word included when giving reasoning?
"Because"
What would be lacking if we didn't include evidence when making a claim?
The claim would not be proved to be true, making it more of an opinion.
How does the topic of a text affect the claim?
It guides the reader to come to an accurate statement throughout the passage.
What are context clues?