Teaching Argumentation

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ACTIVITIES AND GAMES FOR THE CL ASSROOM

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eaching Argumentation: Activities and Games for the Classroom identifies select argumentation skills from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and offers K–12 teachers ten fun, engaging activities and games to teach those skills to students. Using these activities and games, students will develop the ability to think critically and debate constructively, and will become informed citizens destined for academic and lifetime success. The authors identify the CCSS relevant to argumentation, identify the elements of argumentation within the standards, and group the elements into thirteen argumentation skills. Using Teaching Argumentation, K–12 teachers will:

• Access games and activities to support instruction

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Senior Vice President, Spencer Foundation, and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin–Madison

“Rogers and Simms have created an accessible, researchbased resource that teachers can use on a daily basis in their classrooms. They’ve prepared everything teachers will need: a wealth of examples, items, templates, and other resources so that each skill is ready to teach and every game is ready to play.”

— Robert J. Marzano From the foreword

JULIA A. SIMMS

Marzano Research is a joint venture between Solution Tree and Dr. Robert J. Marzano. Marzano Research combines Dr. Marzano’s forty years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling in order to provide effective and accessible instructional strategies, leadership strategies, and classroom assessment strategies that are always at the forefront of best practice.

— Diana Hess

ACTIVITIES AND GAMES FOR THE CL ASSROOM

KATIE ROGERS

and teach argumentation skills • Help students develop the critical-thinking skills necessary to lead informed lives • Provide students with the tools to build effective arguments and relay complex information

“Teaching Argumentation crisply and clearly explains why it is so important for students to develop and practice argumentation skills and provides a first-rate framework for understanding the nature of these skills. At its core is a wealth of practical and relevant research-based strategies that will be immediately useful for teachers. Read this book if you seek to improve your ability to teach the fundamental democratic skills of argumentation in ways that will be highly engaging and interesting for your students.”

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KATIE ROGERS JULIA A. SIMMS foreword by Robert J. Marzano


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