Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)Argumentative Text Prompts |
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| Grade: | 8th Grade |
| Standard: | 8.18 |
| Description: | Students write persuasive texts to influence the attitudes or actions of a specific audience on specific issues. |
| Standard: | 8.18.A |
| Description: | establishes a clear thesis or position; |
| Standard: | 8.18.B |
| Description: | considers and responds to the views of others and anticipates and answers reader concerns and counter-arguments; |
| Standard: | 8.18.C |
| Description: | includes evidence that is logically organized to support the author's viewpoint and that differentiates between fact and opinion. |
| Standard: | Literacy.W.8.10 |
| Description: | 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. |
| Standard: | 8.11 |
| Description: | Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. |
| Standard: | 8.11.C |
| Description: | compose multi-paragraph argumentative texts using genre characteristics and craft; |