"Identifying Arguments Worksheet" is an activity to help students find and use evidence to support claims and identify bias. This is great for news articles, or other informational texts.

While this is a low-prep activity, the first step is choosing an article to read. Your text can be balanced or biased. Your article should discuss an issue and attempt to provide evidence for both sides of the argument. This is great for news/current events articles. As history teachers, we also use this with historiography texts. This is meant to teach students about identifying bias and evaluating evidence.

Includes: 

• 2 page PDF ready-to-print worksheet
• Teacher Guide with editable Google Doc link (Ready to post on Google Classroom) 

Here’s how this activity works:

E - Evaluate - Identifying Arguments Worksheet

This worksheet asks students to read an assigned text and find evidence to support both sides of an assigned issue. Students summarize each side of the issue. Then, students are asked to decide if the text is balanced or biased. Finally, students take a stand on the issue based on the text. 

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