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My Favorite Lesson Plan for Teaching Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning

August 29, 2018 by Jeanne Wolz 2 Comments

Let's face it. Teaching argumentative writing is hard. Each year I teach it, I always know it's going to be one of the most energy-taxing units of the year. The art of creating a well-crafted argument is challenging for most students--let's be real, most people, young or not--and facilitating a ... READ the POST

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