CER: Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (responses to a data table)
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Mini-Task
Product Name
Curriculum
Skill
Standards
CCR.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
CCR.R.8
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
CCR.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
CCR.R.8
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
Prompt
Scoring Guide
Instructional Strategies
1. Review definitions of "claim," "evidence," and "reasoning," and discuss how they are connected.
2. Model how to construct a claim from a simple (and unrelated to target content) data set to help students learn this new skill. Then model how to write statements that support the claim using evidence and reasoning.
3. Have students practice writing claims and evidence/reasoning statements using the same non-content-based data set. Have them pair-share their own claim/evidence/reasoning statements and/or share-out with whole class.
4. Introduce the actual data set and prompt for the actual target content (in this example, it is a chemistry data set about bonding).
5. Have students work individually or in pairs to complete the full process with the target content. Share out or score all work, and repeat process if necessary.
Additional Instruction
This particular mini-task was written for a high-school-level chemistry course (content: bonding), but could be adapted to be used in non-science courses where students need practice writing scientific claims based on information they read from a data table. The attachments include versions of the actual worksheets used for the chemistry/bonding activity that can be adapted for other uses, but also a full instructional plan that proposes how to use this mini-task with any content related to reading data tables and then writing CER statements based off of it, as well as a template to adapt for other content.
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