Textual Evidence Survey

What is textual evidence?

• You claim.
• Proof from the text to support your answer.
• What the author thinks about a topic.
• An explanation in your own words about your claim.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

Why is it important to provide textual evidence?

• It makes your paragraph longer.
• It allows your reader to get the important facts from the article without reading the whole thing.
• It shows that you know what you are talking about.
• It makes your claim stronger and helps prove your point.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

What is an inference?

• Something you have a gut feeling about.
• An educated guess.
• Evidence that supports your claim.
• What the story is mostly about.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

Which sentence is cited correctly 

• It wasn't me!
• "It wasn't me!"
• "It wasn't me"!
• "It wasn't me"

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Where do you site the page number

• A paragraph away from textual  evidence
• Before textual evidence
• In the middle of the textual evidence 
• After the text 

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Do you put quotations around textual evidence

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.8

Which sentence is textual evidence

• Last sentence

• Second to last sentnce

• first sentence

• fourth sentence

What is another way to think of textual evidence?

• An answer to the question.
• My paraphrased version of the article.
• A word-for-word quote from the article.
• My opinion of the article.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.8

What does the citation need to include?

• Author's first and last name.
• The page number.
• The website.
• The author's last name and page number.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does 'paraphrase' mean?

• Summarizing what someone else said by putting it into your own words

• Making up statistics

• Using text evidence

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9