Textual Evidence

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What is textual evidence?

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Proof from the text to support your answer.

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Why is it important to provide textual evidence?

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It makes your claim stronger and helps prove your point.

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Inference

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An educated guess.

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Which piece of evidence could be used to BEST support this claim: High school students should be required to wear uniforms? Options: When adding everything up, a school uniform could end up costing more than $200., A student reported, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence.",

According to the text, "At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendance rates went up, and behavior incidents went down" (Paragraph 1).

, School uniforms can be ordered online.

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According to the text, "At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendance rates went up, and behavior incidents went down" (Paragraph 1).

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Why do we have textual evidence?

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To prove a claim

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textual evidence

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using quotations, summaries and paraphrasing from a text to support a position

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When citing a source, you should use:

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quotations

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What does a strongly supported inference need?

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Background knowledge and textual evidence that answers the question or writing prompt.

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Which paragraph is written correctly to respond to this question: Why do people feel cell phones should be turned off during dinner?

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People feel cell phones should be turned off during dinner to give people more freedom. In the text it states, "Franchesca had an even happier result when she put away her phone" (Paragraph 6). This shows that turning cell phones off during meal times made people feel happy and less tied to a device.

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Which piece of textual evidence is written correctly? "June wants to go to the park" (Lovett 2). Options: Eric heard "June wants to go to the park" (Paragraph 2)., Eric heard, "June wants to go to the park" (Paragraph 2).

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Eric heard, "June wants to go to the park" (Paragraph 2).