Argumentative Text Review

Making a claim and supporting it using logic is:

• persuasion
• claim
• argument
• evidence

information used to back up and support your answer

• bridge
• persuasion
• argument
• evidence

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TEKS.ELA.CR.4F

TEKS.ELA.E1.4F

TEKS.ELA.E1.5C

TEKS.ELA.E2.5C E3.5C

TEKS.ELA.RI.5C

The people that will be affected by this topic or read your essay

• evidence
• your teacher
• audience

A claim is: 

• The position you are trying to get your readers to accept
• the thesis statement
• found in the introduction
• all of the above

A counterargument challenges the argument by addressing the position of someone who may not agree with you. 

• True
• False

Every argument begins with one of these.

• claim
• reason
• evidence
• explanation

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TEKS.ELA.CR.4F

TEKS.ELA.E1.4F

TEKS.ELA.E1.5C

TEKS.ELA.E2.5C E3.5C

TEKS.ELA.RI.5C

Bias means _____________ one view over another view.

• supplementing

• favoring

• opinioning

• hosting

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TEKS.ELA.E1.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E2.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E3.11G.I

TEKS.ELA.E4.11G.I

An unbiased person considers all sides of an issue.

• True

• False

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TEKS.ELA.2.9E.II

TEKS.ELA.3.9E.II

TEKS.ELA.4.9E.II

TEKS.ELA.5.9E.II

TEKS.ELA.RI.5E

Which of the following is not a form of evidence?

• quote from an expert 
• a statistic
• government definitions 
• a counterclaim 

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TEKS.ELA.CR.4F

TEKS.ELA.E1.4F

TEKS.ELA.E1.5C

TEKS.ELA.E2.5C E3.5C

TEKS.ELA.RI.5C

What should you do after presenting text evidence?

• Move on to another reason
• Transition to another paragraph
• Summarize that evidence
• Explain how that evidence proves your thesis statement

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TEKS.ELA.CR.4F

TEKS.ELA.E1.4F

TEKS.ELA.E1.5C

TEKS.ELA.E2.5C E3.5C

TEKS.ELA.RI.5C