Evidence

A family of tools that share one engine and grow with students across grades.

6 tools

Collect quotes from a text in a locker; drag the best ones into a paragraph to support your claim.

An author's claim is on trial; students sort reasons and evidence into strong, weak and irrelevant.

X-ray an op-ed: claims glow red, reasons blue, evidence green, and unsupported claims show up as cracks.

Pick a kid-relevant issue (later school start?), build a claim with reasons and sources, then face...

Build a claim-evidence-reasoning paragraph with language frames for a simple experiment.

Construct a full argument outline with claim, counterclaim, rebuttal and evidence; a peer-review rubric...