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Approach · aural

Aural: say the trend, talk the evaluation

Use spoken description of the data and discussion of fairness to drive the analysis.

Say the trend aloud

Before writing anything, students describe their graph's shape to a partner in a sentence: "As the foil got longer, the globe got dimmer." Saying the relationship in words is the bridge to a written conclusion and is exactly the success-criteria language.

Compare to prediction, out loud

Students tell their partner whether the result matched their Lesson 12 prediction and why, using the frame "I predicted ___; my results showed ___; so my prediction was/was not supported." Voicing the comparison builds the evaluation habit.

Peer explain the graph rules

Students teach a partner the "rules of a good graph" (titled axes, even scale, points, line) from memory — explaining the rules aloud reinforces them.