Argumentative Text Introduction - Third Grade Reading

What is an argumentative text?
This video introduces what an argumentative text is and explains the elements of an argumentative text. Learn about the purpose, the intended audience, the claim, and the evidence.
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Looking for more help in teaching argumentative text? Check out the resources below:
Argumentative Text Week-Long Unit:
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Argumentative Text Interactive Notebook Pages:
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Help your students recognize characteristics and structures of argumentative, or persuasive, text by identifying the author's claim/opinion, distinguishing facts from opinion, and identifying the intended audience or reader with the above resources. Define argumentative/persuasive text and its components with the mini argumentative text anchor chart and practice this skill in authentic text or the included text with the three interactive notebook pages. And help your students learn the difference between fact and opinion and give them practice distinguishing between fact and opinion with the sorting activity included in the notebook.
Then dig deeper with the week-long argumentative text unit. After analyzing the structure and characteristics, you and your students will evaluate the author's claim based on the evidence presented in the text and compare different arguments made about the same topic. An assessment is included to measure student understanding at the end of the unit.