Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. For more information on the Core Ready program, see Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards ISBN: 9780132907460. The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument is one of the 4 Doors to Core Ready for the standards-serious student and teacher. It is a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide for helping all students become Core Ready. Using the books in The Core Ready Program, readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and learning. Enter through this door in the Core Ready program to understand how to teach students to use evidence to understand and formulate opinions about what they read, and to craft powerful arguments by writing and sharing ideas. The book guides teachers and students through three rich and dynamic lesson sets: Grade 3: Stand Up for Series: Collaborative Author Study Grade 4: Poetry Wars: Interpreting and Debating Meaning in Poems Grade 5: Making the Case: Reading and Writing Editorial The Power to Persuade teaches students to articulate their own viewpoints and to defend these opinions with clear, concise, cohesive arguments in ways that are not only intuitive, but also informed. Each lesson set emphasizes citing specific evidence to support one's ideas and refute opposing opinions. Effective listening, conversation, and oral speaking behaviors when discussing, collaborating or debating with peers, are also highlighted. Click here to take a virtual tour!
