How to Write a Claim evidence reasoning paragraph activity to Help students create CER paragraphs in science

Are your students struggling with writing their CER (claim evidence reasoning) paragraphs? Do they have difficulty using evidence to support their claim and then using reasoning to link the evidence to the claim? This claim evidence reasoning CER activity will help your students learn how to write a claim evidence reasoning paragraph.

Help guide your students through the whole CER process with the included teacher presentation which takes them through

-pulling out information from a reading passage

-analyzing graphs

-choosing a claim sentence from a variety of premade sentences

-choosing evidence sentences from a variety of premade sentences

-choosing reasoning sentences from a variety of premade sentences

– learning how to put them all together to create one cohesive paragraph

Click the PREVIEW to learn more and see it in action with the video link inside the preview PDF

What students are doing with these CER claim evidence reasoning practice problems:

✴️ Identifying key details from the passage

✴️ Analyzing graphs

✴️ Organizing evidence and reasoning from the information into a graphic organizer

✴️ Choosing which claim sentences best answers the questions from a group of sentence choices and then explaining why the other choices don’t work as well.

✴️ Choosing which evidence sentences best support the claim from a group of sentence choices and then explaining why the other choices don’t work as well.

✴️ Choosing which reasoning sentences best link the evidence to the claim from a group of sentence choices and then explaining why the other choices don’t work as well.

✴️ Using sentence starters to move onto writing their own claim evidence reasoning when they are ready for the next level

✴️ Using the rubric and the self-check list to help them with their claim evidence reasoning paragraphs

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Included in this claim evidence reasoning CER practice activity:

✅ Four different scenarios with graphs to analyze

✅  Multiple choice sentences to choose their claim, evidence, and reasoning sentences from

✅ Teacher presentation to guide students through the whole process of writing a CER

✅ Grading rubric

✅ example CER answers

✅ Student Self-assessment checklist

✅ Graphic organizers

✅ Sentence frames for those that need extra support