week 1 Making Connections

1. Making Connections:
Skills and Strategies 1
Identifying Claims and Evidence
Pages 2-5

2. If someone makes a claim,they
argue that something is true.

3. To support the claim they
need to give evidence
= information to make you
believe what they say is
true.

4. Analysing writers’ claims and
evidence will help you:
to evaluate texts
to understand texts

5. Pause this presentation
and read pages 2-3
(examples and explanations)

6. Some strategies to identify
claims and evidence:

7. 1. Identify the writers claim

8. 2. Scan text for evidence

9. 3. Question yourself as you
read

10. 4. Look for words that signal
evidence
prove according to in fact
is reported that shows point out
statistics show reveal

11. 5. Look for words that signal
claims
consider according to insists
asserts contends believes
it is clear that argues

12. 6. Look for compare and
contrast words
although despite however
likewise similarly

13. Now practice identifying
claims and evidence
• Quiz
• Skills practice 1 & 2