Citing Evidence to Write About Literary Text

What is evidence in a literary text?

• The most important idea that a writer wants to share with readers.

• Information from a text that can be used to support thinking about the text.

• A conclusion made by combining the details from a text and your own knowledge.

• The mental image created by analyzing the different details within a text.

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What explicit question does the following evidence address?

“Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was. He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke.”

• What kind of man was Henry?

  
  

• Where did Henry live?

• What was Henry’s job?

• What happened to Henry?

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Which inference could be made from the following evidence?

“Today, however, they were not playing. Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual. Dorothy stood in the door with Toto in her arms, and looked at the sky too.”

• It was harvest season.

• Toto didn’t want to play.

• A storm was coming.

• Dorothy was in trouble.

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Which of the following would be the strongest evidence to support the inference that Toto was a good companion to Dorothy?

“It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.”

• “Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog”
  

• “small black eyes that twinkled merrily”

• “It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings.”

• “Toto played all day long”

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Which of the following is an example of a quotation?

• Based on the author’s description, Toto was scared of storms and wanted to hide.

• Toto became frightened and jumped out of Dorothy’s arms so he could hide.

• According to the text, “Toto jumped out of Dorothy’s arms and hid under the bed.”

• Once Toto heard a storm was coming, he immediately hid under Dorothy’s bed.

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