Text evidence

Citing text evidence chart. Will give a copy to past in my ELL and Special Ed students' interactive science journal.

Teaching text evidence is a HUGE part of the upper elementary classroom. It can be tiresome for kids, but it is important. I try to teach it very explicitly for one week and then review it every week after that! Today, I am going to share all the ways that I teach text evidence to...

Today, I'm here to tell you guys about one of my favorite lessons to teach! It's my Citing Text Evidence Intro Lesson!! CCSS RL1 and RI1 are all about answering questions using text evidence! This lesson is perfect for test prep, especially since PARCC is filled with text evidence questions! Text evidence is always super hard for my third graders, y'all. They don't have a lot of experience citing evidence when they come to me, so an explicit lesson about text evidence is a MUST! So here's…

Teaching upper elementary students how to cite text evidence can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be! With these helpful sentence starters on a citing text evidence anchor chart, it's easier than ever. Whether you're a teacher or parent, this guide will help your 3rd or 4th grader confidently cite text evidence from their reading using clear and concise language. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to confidence in citing text evidence in upper elementary! Get it free with an email…

Do your students struggle with finding and citing text evidence? Check out this post for text evidence activities, tips, and strategies (with freebies).

Do your students struggle with finding and citing text evidence? Check out this post for text evidence activities, tips, and strategies (with freebies).

Teaching text evidence can be challenging…but it can also be a lot of fun! Want to find out how to lead your students step by step through the process of finding and citing text evidence? Find out what works in my classroom here: 1. An Introduction or Review By the fourth or fifth grades, most […]

These RACE Materials will help your students create a constructed response in order to answer text evidence questions successfully. RACE is a step by step organized way to write constructed responses and stands for Restate the Question, Answer the Question, Cite Text Evidence, and Explain Your Answer. #RACE #Freebie #TextEvidenceRACE

Knowing the answer is one thing...but being able to justify your thinking by citing text is an entirely different type of skill. Taking the text and combing through it, like an old man at the beach with a metal detector, determined to find some treasures, not only takes strong reading comprehension skills, but also takes some perseverance, to find what we're looking for. In this post by The Teacher Next Door, I'll share the six steps I use in my classroom, to teach this important reading…

While writing our literary analysis essays, I noticed my students struggled with introducing their textual evidence. They just kind of plopped it in without introducing it or setting up the context of the evidence. To fix this up, today when we revised our draft for transitions, I threw in some teaching about transitions to use to introduce textual evidence. It definitely helped! #middleschoolela #iteachmiddle

Knowing the answer is one thing...but being able to justify your thinking by citing text is an entirely different type of skill. Taking the text and combing through it, like an old man at the beach with a metal detector, determined to find some treasures, not only takes strong reading comprehension skills, but also takes some perseverance, to find what we're looking for. In this post by The Teacher Next Door, I'll share the six steps I use in my classroom, to teach this important reading…

How do you write well-organized paragraph responses that include text evidence? The answer is simple: CER! #englishlanguagearts #teachingresources

Citing Textual Evidence Worksheet Awesome A Free Text Evidence Lesson Teaching Resources

A couple of years ago I put together a detective kit. I thought, 'if we want kids to find evidence, we want them to be little detectives.' And another fun introduction was born! So, I found a pencil box and thought about what I could put in the kit... It now has a flashlight, notepad, dry erase marker, cool pen, magnifying glass, post-its and nerdy glasses. Every week I choose a new detective. Of course, it's someone who's been a GREAT detective! I kick off the week by asking students what…

Getting upper elementary students to find and cite text evidence can be tough, but in this post, you'll find lots of practical ideas and activities to help your 3rd - 5th grade students master this important reading concept. This post will enable teachers to implement a variety of classroom reading experiences that reinforce text evidence. Click on the link to find out more!

As we move into a social studies world that is asking kids to collect evidence, organize evidence, create products, and communicate results, writing skills are becoming more and more important. But…

Students struggle with citing text evidence. These sentence starters should help to improve the quality of their written responses.

A visual for Evidence Based Sentence Stems

Citing textual evidence can be a challenge for middle school ELA students, and even high school ELA students. These Citing Textual Evidence Activities and Mini Lesson, will help your students learn how to properly cite text with the correct formatting and punctuation. |Middle School English Language Arts| Citing Evidence Middle School | Text-Based Evidence Activities