In this lesson, teachers will reintroduce claim and focus with a focus on revising the students’ existing claim to strengthen it and better align the claim to the prompt. Following a brief teacher-led presentation, students will receive differentiated worksheets guiding them through individual revisions of their claims depending on their rubric and Signal Check level. This lesson can be taught either to a small group of students or the whole class, depending on need.
In this lesson, the teacher and students will analyze a sample first draft, sample feedback, and a sample revision of an argumentative essay focusing on claim and focus. The teacher will model suggesting revision strategies and students will participate in large and small group collaboration to suggest additional revisions. Students will then review the impact of revisions based on teacher comments in a sample revision.
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