This unit plan helps students move beyond simple assertions by encouraging critical thinking, considering differing opinions, and evaluating authoritative sources. It includes posters, a student reference card, worksheets, a quiz, and an assessment with a rubric, providing teachers with all the tools necessary to support students in developing well-rounded reasoning skills.
Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view
Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view