Argumentative Text Prompts
7th Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
7.11.C
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compose multi-paragraph argumentative texts using genre characteristics and craft; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
7.18
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Students write persuasive texts to influence the attitudes or actions of a specific audience on specific issues. |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
7.18.A
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establishes a clear thesis or position; |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
7.18.B
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considers and responds to the views of others and anticipates and answers reader concerns and counter-arguments; and |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
7.18.C
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includes evidence that is logically organized to support the author's viewpoint and that differentiates between fact and opinion. |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
7
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Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writing in which the development, organization, style, and tone are relevant to task, purpose, and audience, using an appropriate command of language.- Write narratives to convey a series of events incorporating key literary
elements, establishing a clear purpose, using narrative techniques (dialogue,
pacing, description, and reflection), and sequencing events coherently
(chronological and/or flashback).
- Write informative or explanatory texts with an organized structure and a formal
style to examine ideas or processes effectively while developing the topic and
utilizing appropriate transitions, precise vocabulary, and credible information or
data when relevant.
- Write an argument to defend a position by introducing and supporting claim(s),
acknowledging alternate or opposing claims, and presenting reasons and
relevant text evidence from accurate and credible sources.
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Arizona Academic Standards:
7.W.10
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.W.7.10
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE7W10
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Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
7.W.RW.10
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Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.7.G
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Write arguments to support claims. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.7.H
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Introduce and state an opinion on a topic.
- E07.E.1.1.1 - Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.7.I
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Acknowledge alternate or opposing claims and support claim with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic.
- E07.E.1.1.2 - Develop the analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, ideas, and inferences and demonstrating an understanding of the text(s).
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.7.J
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Organize the claim(s) with clear reasons and evidence clearly; clarify relationships among claim(s) and reasons byusing words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion; provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
- E07.E.1.1.1 - Introduce text(s) for the intended audience, state an opinion and/or topic, establish a situation, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
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E07.E.1.1.3 - Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
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E07.E.1.1.6 - Provide a concluding section that follows from and supports the analysis presented.
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.7.K
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Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition.
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Use sentences of varying lengths and complexities.
Develop and maintain a consistent voice.
Establish and maintain a formal style.
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E07.D.2.1.1 - Choose language that expresses ideas precisely its conventions. and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.*
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E07.D.2.1.2 - Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.*
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E07.D.2.1.3 - Maintain consistency in style and tone.*
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E07.D.2.1.4 - Choose punctuation for effect.*
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E07.D.2.1.5 - Choose words and phrases for effect.*
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E07.E.1.1.4 - Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic and/or convey the experience and events.
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E07.E.1.1.5 - Establish and maintain a formal style
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Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.4.7.L
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Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
- E07.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
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E07.D.1.1.2 - Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
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E07.D.1.1.3 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
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E07.D.1.1.4 -Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
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E07.D.1.1.5 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
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E07.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
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E07.D.1.1.7 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
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E07.D.1.1.8 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
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E07.D.1.1.9 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
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E07.D.1.2.1 - Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
E07.D.1.2.2 - Spell correctly.
E07.D.1.2.3 - Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
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E07.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
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Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.7.C.1.3
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Write and support a claim using logical reasoning, relevant evidence from sources, elaboration, a logical organizational structure with varied transitions, and acknowledging at least one counterclaim |
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.7.V.1.1
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Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing. |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
7.W.1.S
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Compose an argument, using clear reasons and supporting evidence.- Introduce claims.
- Acknowledge alternate or opposing claims.
- Support claims with credible sources.
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