IXL | Choose evidence to support a claim

Read the claim below.

Joining the army is a great way to earn money for college.

Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

More than two million U.S. military personnel have served in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Under the GI Bill, veterans may receive funds to help cover the costs of college tuition and housing.

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Read the claim below.

The world would be better off without cockroaches.

Select the piece of evidence that best supports this claim.

Cockroaches are an important part of forest ecosystems since they regulate nitrogen, allowing plants to grow.

Cockroaches carry disease and can trigger allergies or asthma attacks.

key idea

A claim is a statement of a writer's argument, position, or opinion. When you make a claim in a piece of writing, you should also give evidence, or details, to support that claim. Strong evidence should show why your claim is valid or true.

Claim: Reinhold Messner is the greatest mountaineer of all time.

Evidence: Reinhold Messner was the first person to successfully climb all fourteen of the world's eight-thousand-meter peaks.

Evidence does not provide strong support if it contradicts or opposes your claim:

red X symbol, Reinhold Messner does not hold the record for the most successful summits of Mount Everest, which currently stands at twenty-one.

Evidence does not provide strong support if it is off-topic or doesn't address why your claim is true:

red X symbol, Reinhold Messner was born in northern Italy and spent much of the early part of his life climbing the peaks of the Alps.

solution

This piece of evidence best supports the claim The world would be better off without cockroaches:

Cockroaches carry disease and can trigger allergies or asthma attacks.

The other piece of evidence does not support the claim:

Cockroaches are an important part of forest ecosystems since they regulate nitrogen, allowing plants to grow.

This helps support a claim that is different from the writer's.

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