Choose Evidence to Support a Claim

Read the claim and the supporting evidence.Claim: The government should regulate the level of sodium in children's foods.Evidence: A recent study found that seventy-two percent of dinners marketed to toddlers had unhealthy levels of sodium.Why does the evidence support the claim? Choose the analysis that better explains the connection.

• government agency should monitor the factories where such foods are produced

• When companies don't act in children's best interest, it's the government's role to step in

What is text evidence?

• the author's name and date of publication

• Your opinion in 3rd person

• textual reference from the reading that supports your claim (can be a direct quote or a paraphrase).

• A connection between your claim and evidence, explaining to the audience how the two relate.

Where is an in-text citation located? (choose 2).

• Directly after your "evidence"

• Directly after your claim

• before the punctuation . ! ?

• Directly after your Tie-in/Elaboration.

What is a direct quote?

• recalling what the author said, and restating in your own words. *must provide an MLA citation.

• word for word from the author, used to support your claim. *must use "quotation marks".

• Providing the author credit for his/her work.

Pieces of text used to back up (support) a claim

• Claim

• Reasoning

• Evidence

• Sufficient

Standard RI 7.8 is mostly about . . .

• Assessing claim, evidence, and reasoning.

• Finding support for a claim.

• Establishing best friends in a text.

• Finding the points on a plot diagram.

A statement made by an author that asserts an author’s belief.

• Evidence

• Claim

• Reasoning

• Sufficient

The explanation the author gives to connect the evidence to the claim.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Sufficient

• Reasoning

This tells more about the reasons that support a claim, especially why it matters.

• claim

• evidence

• counterclaim

• reason

This is a structured essay using clear CLAIM, EVIDENCE, & REASONING for the purpose of persuading others

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• argumentative essay

• descriptive essay