Citing Textual Evidence to Support a Claim

The author writes that, "he orders a cheeseburger for dinner."

• Explicit

• Implicit

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.

• At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendence rates went up, and behavior incidents went down.

• A student reported, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence."

• School uniforms can be ordered online .

What does explicit mean?

• A guess

• Evidence that is directly stated in the text

• A conclusion based off of facts and reasoning

What is the definition of "Cite"?

• to show where you found your answer; to give proof

• any written or printed work

• to show proof of your claim

• to read quickly through a text

Answer explanation

Remember we "Cite" when we are using the R.A.C.E. writing strategy.

What is the definition of "evidence"?

• to show where you found your answer; to give proof

• any written or printed work

• the proof of your claim; what you need to support your answers

• to read quickly through a text

Answer explanation

Investigators must collect details to prove a suspect is guilty.

When you show where you found your answer in a text, you ____.

You need to use ___ to show that you are taking a sentence from the text.

• quotation marks

• inference

• cite

• skim

Don't skim through the text. You need to ___ the text to find your evidence.

What is the definition of "quotation marks"?

• a guess based on the details in the text

• to make a guess based on the details

• markings that show what a speaker is saying or parts of a text you are citing.

• any written or printed work

Any book, newspaper, or print you read is called ___.

• analyze

• evidence

• cite

• text