Argumentative Nouns & Verbs

Planning Tool

The Argumentative Nouns & Verbs resource equips students with the precise language needed to construct, defend, and refine arguments in writing. It provides sentence frames and word choices that support key elements of argumentative essays, including making claims, introducing evidence, explaining reasoning, addressing counterarguments, and articulating conclusions. By reducing the cognitive load of “how to say it,” the resource allows students to focus on the quality of their thinking—resulting in clearer, more coherent, and more persuasive argumentative writing.

Level
Grades 3-12

Section
Sentences, Note-Taking, Paragraphs (SPO), Revision, Summaries, Composition (PTO, TO, MPO)

Strategy
Summary SPO, Blank Single-Paragraph Outlines (SPO), SPO Scaffold: Distinguish T.S. from details, SPO Scaffold: Given TS, sequence details, SPO Scaffold: Identify T.S. & sequence details, SPO Scaffold: Given T.S., select relevant details, SPO Scaffold: Given T.S., eliminate irrelevant detail, SPO Scaffold: Eliminate irrelevant detail(s), SPO Scaffold: Given T.S., generate details, SPO Scaffold: Given topic/prompt, generate T.S., SPO Scaffold: Given T.S. & details, write C.S., SPO Scaffold: Given T.S. & details, write C.S., SPO Scaffold: Given details, write T.S., Sentences & Fragments, Scrambled Sentences, Sentence Expansion, Sentence Types, Developing Questions, Basic Conjunctions: because, but, so, Subordinating Conjunctions, Transitions, Appositives, Sentence Combining, Underlining Key Words & Phrases, Pre-Transition Outline (PTO), Transition Outline (TO), Multiple-Paragraph Outline (MPO), Introductions (GST), Conclusions (TSG), Summary Sentence, Vary Vocabulary, Improve T.S. & C.S., Unelaborated Paragraph, Converting Notes to Sentences, Converting Sentences to Notes, Taking Notes

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