Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Advantages/disadvantages Essay
This four-page essay provides an example of an advantages/disadvantages essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Book Review Example 1
This three-page essay provides an example of an book review. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Book Review Example 2
This three-page essay provides an example of an book review. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Persuasive Essay Example 2
This four-page essay provides an example of a persuasive essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Writing About Literature (Fiction)
Students are instructed in a nine-step process of how to write a literary response paper that includes a thesis, strong ideas, and specific supporting details from the text. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Persuasive Essay Worksheets
A collection of assignments related to persuasive writing are provided on this site. Scaffolded assignments related to writing an effective introduction and identifying both sides of an issue are included. Exemplar persuasive essays with...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Evaluate Arguments and Claims
This article will help you evaluate informational text to determine whether an author's argument is supported by evidence or not. Click on Model to see a model with explanations and then click on Practice.
Other
Drew University: Resources for Writers Comparison Writing
Sections of this site include key features of the comparison essay, comparisons in daily life, formulating a thesis, preparing to write, and organizing a comparison essay. The site also includes a paragraph of caution when writing about...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Analysis
This page explains that analysis is crucial to the success of a paper as it answers the questions how and why and shows the reader that the writing is knowledgable. Logic and development work together to make the analysis clear. Examples...
Brown University
Brown University: Critical Writing and Thinking
Resource explains exactly what critial writing and thinking are, questions to help you think critically, paper writing tips, troubleshooting, and more.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate Support for a Claim[pdf]
This resource provides a downloadable worksheet to use after reading a nonfiction text. Students will evaluate an author's support for a claim by answering the questions and prompts provided on the worksheet.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Fact and Opinion Lessons
In this learning module, students will learn more about the differences between facts and opinions. A PowerPoint presentation and related activity are provided to reinforce the topic of facts vs. opinions. This module is designed to...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Fact and Opinion Worksheets
Fact and opinion practice exercises, answer sheets, and explanation summaries are included on this tutorial site. Worksheets are tiered in levels of difficulty.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Claim Evidence and Reasoning
A slideshow with twelve slides about reading or writing an argument, analyzing the claim and looking at how it is supported with observation, evidence, and reasoning.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing
Aimed particularly towards writing about non-fiction, this site describes ways to think about what you read so you can write more clearly. Focuses on analyzing the "ways of thinking" that an author uses so you can evaluate the validity...
Read Works
Read Works: Fat and Fed Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains arguments about the problem of obesity in America. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 2
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Author's Purpose: Reading Test 3
A ten-question quiz on identifying whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Students are asked to type an explanation for each answer. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Fact and Opinion: Reading Test 3
A 25-question quiz where students must identify statements as fact or opinion. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate the Strength of Evidence [Pdf]
This resource provides a downloadable worksheet that will assist students after they read a piece of nonfiction. Students will answer guided questions to help them determine the strength of evidence used when supporting a claim....
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Logic in Argumentative Writing
An explanation and examples of several different types of logic that can be used in argumentative writing.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Texts
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use different organizational patterns as guides for summarizing and forming an overview of different kinds of expository text while distinguishing factual claims from...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Identifying Acceptable Paraphrases
This learning module defines paraphrasing and discusses how to paraphase, and then they identify acceptable paraphrases of source material.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Elements of an Argument Test
Argument essay terms are included on this test over the following words: argument, claim, support, reasons, evidence, and counterargument. Six multiple choice questions are provided on this assessment.