Textual Evidence

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.

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.

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.

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."
• 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 .

Why do we have textual evidence 

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

textual evidence is

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

• proof

• a detailed examination the elements or structure of something

when citing a source you should use

• an exclamation point

• a semi colon or colon

• quotations

• a period at the end of the sentence

What does a strongly supported inference need?

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

• Background knowledge and an explanation of why the narrator is writing the text.

• Lots of textual evidence. The more the better!

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

• People feel cell phones should be turned off during dinner to give people more freedom. "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.

• 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." This shows that turning cell phones off during meal times made people feel happy and less tied to a device.
• 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).

• 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.

Which piece of textual evidence is written correctly?

"June wants to go to the park" (Lovett 2).

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

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