Citing Text Evidence-RACES

What is your standard?

• R.L. 11.-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain

• R.I. 11-12.6- Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

• R.L. 11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

• 11-12.1 a-Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.

What does it mean to cite evidence?

• refer back to the text for a response and support your response with information from the text.

• to look for the response in the reading.

• to give your opinion.

• to give credit.

What is explicit textual evidence?

• Evidence that is stated directly in the text.

• Evidence that has to be read between the lines in a text.

• Act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true; the conclusions drawn from this process.

• A reader’s own version of a writer’s essential information.

What is the RACES strategy?

• Restate, answer, cite, summarize, and explain

• read, analyze, consider, elaborate, and synthesize

• rephrase, assess, consume, expound, and say it

• relate, assume, contain, expound, and sing

What is textual evidence?

• Support lifted directly from a text to support inferences, claims, and assertions. Using textual evidence demands that readers engage with the text and share the specific aspects of the text that influence their thinking.

• information given within the text.

• responses in the text.

• analysis of the text.