Bare Assertions Quiz
This 10-question quiz helps students learn to move beyond making bare assertions by considering differing ideas, opinions, and authoritative sources. Ideal for whole-class warm-ups, reviews, or formative assessments, it effectively gauges students’ understanding of critical thinking and reasoning skills. Suitable for primary classrooms.
Students can use their workbooks/ or small whiteboards and markers to complete this activity.
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Learning goals
- We are learning that bare assertions (a claim of fact without supporting evidence) must take into account different points of view.
Curriculum alignment
EN3-8D
old
Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
EN3-OLC-01
new
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
EN3-RECOM-01
new
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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