High-Impact Resources for teaching Interpretation, critique, and argument in social studies

Developed by two members of The WRITE Center's Advisory Board, Chauncey Monte-Sano and Mary Schleppgrell, Read.Inquire.Write helps teachers improve student reading, reasoning, and writing with sources through social studies inquiry. Their free and downloadable curriculum creates a process to support secondary students' argument writing through the reading of sources and analysis of complex social and historical problems.

Here are materials that support students in 3 types of argument writing that are increasingly complex! There are five investigations for each type of argument writing (15 in total).

1. Interpretation
2. Critique
3. Counterargument

Six disciplinary literacy tools create a structured process for inquiry and writing across all the investigations and types of argument writing. To access these tools and free resources available through Read.Inquire.Write, simply register with the site.


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