Supporting Details Intervention

Learning to Find Best Supporting Details

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If you were going to build a house, where would you build it?

Good Place to Build

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Supporting details are pieces of evidence from the text that back up a claim the author is making. We need supporting detail because they are like the foundation of the claim(s) made in the text; without the supporting details, the claims would crumble.

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Rate the following foundations from worst to best.

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Just like we want our houses to be built on the BEST foundation, we also want our claims to have the BEST supporting details.

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Concrete Details

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When looking for supporting details, we want to pick a ​

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quote from the text.

Let's practice finding the BEST supporting details

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST text evidence to support that Jackie Robinson is one of the best baseball players in history?

• "In 1947, Jackie Robinson took a bold, fearless step into the major leagues, paving the way for African Americans who dreamed of playing our nation's highest caliber of baseball."

• "When a truly outstanding baseball player decides his career is over, one way his team honors him is to retire his uniform number."

• "Jackie Robinson may have received the ultimate honor, however, when all of baseball retired his number."

• "That means no major-league baseball player will ever again sport No. 42 on his uniform."

Multiple Choice

What is the BEST text evidence to explain what caused people to want to do more to help during the Civil Rights Movement.

• "Zwerg had also been beaten unconscious."

• "The violence in Montgomery made the national news and stirred a call to action."

• "A television interview with Zwerg from his hospital bed appeared on the news that evening."

• "His battered face and his statement about the riders' determination to continue rallied many viewers to the cause."

• "Volunteers from all over the country joined the Freedom Rides in the South, either on their own or through the quickly organized Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee."

Now it's time for you to try.