Claim Evidence Reasoning - Supporting Students in all Core Subjects

Help your students work toward mastering Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA, History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subject and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Math Practice #3, Communicating Reasoning.

Using your own content, ask your students to use the claim, evidence, reasoning framework:

1. Compose an arguable claim (also argument, thesis, statement that answers a question)
2. Support the claim with evidence (also text based evidence, data, observations, sources, personal experience)
3. Explain their reasoning (also elaboration, commentary, explanation; showing thinking about the evidence)

This can be accomplished through student talk as well as writing.  

Additional Resources and Information:

     Claim-Evidence-Reasoning in Science by Jodi Wheeler-Toppen

     CCSS for English Language Arts 

     look on the right side for history/social studies, science, and technical subjects
     CCSS for Math