Claim Evidence Reasoning ELA

What does CER mean?

• Create Evaluate Respond

• Consider Evidence Relevant

• Claim Evidence Reasoning

• Cause Examine Real-life

What is CER for?

• ELA

• Social Studies

• Both

• Neither

You need to limit the amount of calories you consume to stay healthy.

• This is an example of a claim.

• This is an example of evidence.

What is reasoning?

• Answers a question

• Explaining how evidence supports a claim

• Used to prove something true or false

Why do we need evidence?

• To answer a question

• To show how and why

• To prove our claim is true

What does R mean in CER?

What is a claim?

• Answers a question or problem

• long and detailed paragraph

• Explains why something happened

What is evidence ?

• Answers a question

• Anything you see, hear or read or experience that causes you to believe something is true.

• Long and detailed paragraph

Why do we need reasoning?

• To show how and why

• to answer a question

• To prove your claim is true

In an ELA CER, the claim means...

• you are clearly stating your idea

• you are citing a quotation/paraphrase from the text

• you are explaining how your evidence proves your idea