Assess students' ability to evaluate persuasive techniques and supporting evidence in grade 3–5 opinion writing. Tasks: identify the author’s claim and reasons, distinguish facts from opinions, evaluate relevance, credibility, and sufficiency of evidence, recognize persuasive devices (emotive language, repetition, rhetorical questions), detect simple bias or unsupported generalizations, assess counterclaims, and recommend specific revisions or stronger evidence. Use short passages and student drafts; scoring emphasizes reasoning and use of textual evidence.