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What is a claim?
Answers a question or problem
long and detailed paragraph
Explains why something happened
What is evidence ?
Answers a question
Anything you see, hear or read or experience that causes you to believe something is true.
Long and detailed paragraph
What is reasoning?
Answers a question
Explaining how evidence supports a claim
Used to prove something true or false
What is an example of a claim?
Mr. Smith likes Star Wars
In the fall, because of changes in the length of daylight and changes in temperature, the leaves stop their food-making process.
The data shows that when leaves are taken away from sunlight, they change colors.
What is an example of reasoning?
Honey is stored in hives.
Honeybees store their honey in hives.
Honeybees use hexagons to store the honey and pollen they bring to the hive.
What is an example of evidence?
Football players are 33% more likely to get injured than baseball players.
Football is more dangerous than baseball.
Baseball is a fun sport.
Why do we need evidence?
To answer a question
To show how and why
To prove our claim is true
Why do we need reasoning?
To show how and why
to answer a question
To prove your claim is true
Which one of these is an evidence sentence starter?
Answers a question
The data shows…
This is important because…
What does a reasoning sentence look like?
Starts with the words Therefore or Because
Answers the question
Information from books
Evidence is your __________________
Proof
Question
Reasoning
Reasoning shows ______________ and _______________
Questions and problems
How and why
Evidence and reasoning
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