Support Claims

The statements supporting the claim telling why

• Claims

• Evidence

• Reasons

• Argument

Opinion: We should stop making pennies as currency. Which evidence supports this opinion?

• Pennies honor President Lincoln

• People will sometimes pay more for an item

• It costs more to make a penny than it is worth

What is a claim?

• Your point of view on an issue that you will support with evidence.

• When two people argue about an issue.

• Persuading people to be on your side by using emotions

• Making a valid point so the other person looks wrong

What is evidence?

• Explaining what you know from personal experience

• A statement used to hook the reader to the essay

• Evidence is using pictures to show why you are right.

• Reliable information that supports or backs up your claim.

A claim cannot stand alone, a claim needs to have ______________.

• choices

• a thesis statement

• reasons

• a period

Remember not to start your claim with ___________or _________________.

• Correct grammar

• I believe or I think

• A capital letter or correct word usage

Which claim is written correctly?

• Students should not chew gum in class.

• We should be able to chew gum because it's just gum, come on.

• No, you children should not chew gum in my class! That is so immature!

• I disagree that students should not chew any type of gum in this class.

Give your claim with two reasons for this issue:

Should students have to wear masks all day in school?

(You must write your claim correctly with 2 reasons!)

In order to write a successful argument, you must use ___ to support claims.

• purpose

• audience

• opinions

• evidence

When gathering evidence, use credible ___ and take notes.

• sources

• purposes

• language

• appeals