RI 6.1: Cite textual evidence

What is textual evidence?

• Your 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.

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

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.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Why do we have textual evidence 

• To prove a claim
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• because your teacher says so
• to express an opinion

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

What is an inference?

• Something you have a gut feeling about.

• a conclusion derived from logical reasoning following an investigation of available evidence

• Evidence that supports your claim.

• What the story is mostly about.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Which piece of evidence supports that Kathleen is brave?

• "Even slight miscalculations could send the Vulcan cruiser thousands of miles off course."
• Kathleen might never see her parents again.
• "Kathleen reassured them with a confident look as she logged onto the navigation computer."
• Something could go wrong during takeoff. 

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Which piece of evidence could be used to BEST support this claim:
High school students should be required to wear uniforms.

• 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."
• At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendence rates went up, and behavior incidents went down.
• School uniforms can be ordered online .

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

anything that students can read, write, view, listen to, or explore, including books, photographs, films, articles, music, art, and more

• text

• evidence

• implicit

• analysis

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

facts and/or information (quotes, statistics, graphs, etc.) presented together as a body of support for a claim or value statement.

• analysis

• evidence

• inference

• cheese

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Directly stated

• Implicit
• Explicit
• Infer
• Direct Quotation

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CCSS.RF.3.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

Make reference to; to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.),

• cite
• analysis
• textual evidence
• conclusion

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1