Question 1 (1 point)
Read the passage below and then answer the question.

Children should be encouraged to play sports because participation in sports builds important life skills such as leadership, fairness, and teamwork. Sports like soccer require children to work as a team, to practice regularly, and to develop new skills. In soccer, children must also learn plays. When executing these plays, every individual must work together in a specific role; this teaches children how to work together. Since sports are based on competition, participants also learn how to lose gracefully and develop a sense of fair play. Children who participate in sports develop a stronger sense of self-esteem and responsibility than children who favor other activities. Therefore, all parents should enroll their children in some sort of sporting activity as early as possible.

You can evaluate the validity of a writer’s reasoning by identifying the writer’s argument, determining whether the evidence is sufficient and relevant, determining whether the writing used fallacious reasoning, and coming to a conclusion.


Which statement most effectively evaluates the argument in the paragraph?

Question 1 options:

The claims are valid with the exception of the statement “all parents should enroll their students in some sort of sporting activity as early as possible.”


The evidence is irrelevant to the argument that playing sports builds life skills.


"The claims are valid with the exception of the statement, “Sports like soccer require children to work as a team, to practice regularly, and to develop new skills.”