Teaching Argument Writing - Hillocks Reading
Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12
Supporting Claims with Relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning
George Hillocks Jr
Links to an external site., Emeritus, University of Chicago
Foreword by Michael Smith
ISBN 978-0-325-01396-1 / 0-325-01396-9 / 2011 / 256pp / Paperback
Designed for middle and high school students, the activities in this book will enable students to write strong arguments and evaluate the arguments of others. When they are through, students will be able, as the Common Core Standards ask, to “Delineate and evaluate [an] argument and specific claims…including the validity of the reasoning [and] the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.” Developed by George Hillocks, Jr. and others in diverse inner city classrooms in Chicago, students are easily engaged in the lively problem-solving approach detailed in this book.
Teaching Argument Writing begins with how to teach simple arguments and moves onto those that are more complex, showing step-by-step how to teach students to write and evaluate:
- arguments of fact
- arguments of judgment
- arguments of policy
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Download the publisher's excerpt Links to an external site. Links to an external site.of the introduction, preface and chapter one.