Just Print and Go! Share the slides under a document camera and have the student follow along with the lesson.
For Week 28, students will focus on:
Week 28 is fundamentally focused on W.6.1a, guiding students to establish a clear, focused, and debatable claim as the foundation for their argumentative writing. The curriculum integrates Orton-Gillingham (OG) principles by teaching the argumentative structure as an organizational pattern, emphasizing the claim's specific placement as the thesis statement at the end of the introduction. Students begin by analyzing prompts and using the "Claim Funnel" organizer to narrow a broad topic into a specific, defensible claim, utilizing a structured sentence frame (Although [Counterclaim], [My Claim] because [Reason 1] and [Reason 2]) for drafting. Through "Is it a Claim?" task cards, they practice distinguishing claims from facts and opinions, reinforcing the C-E-R (Claim-Evidence-Reasoning) structure. The week culminates in students drafting a polished introductory paragraph, ensuring their approved claim is clearly integrated and positioned to set up the ensuing body paragraphs.