The complexity of the claim, eviden

The complexity of the claim, evidence, and reasoning will depend on howyou design the learning task as well as the age and experience of your students.In this section, we purposefully selected writing samples from third-, fourth-, andfi fth-grade students because all of the examples include some reasoning. We wantedto illustrate what the different components could look like across different sciencecontent areas. In discussions (such as the second-grade vignette), we also seeyounger students articulating their reasoning at times. Yet, typically in K–2classrooms, students’ writing focuses on just the claim and evidence componentsof the framework. Throughout the book, we will include other examples from theseearlier grade levels. Here we included more sophisticated examples to illustratewhat the components can look like when students gain more experience using theframework in both science talks and science writing.