Text Evidence Vocabulary

The words or sentences that come before and after a word that readers use to figure out the meaning of unknown words are called...

• Context Clues

• Evaluate

• Text

• Analyze

When you use information from the text to support our answers it is called...

• Evidence

• Textual Evidence

• Cite the Evidence

• Infer

The written words in a story, article, or any type of writing is called...

• Context Clues

• Evaluate

• Text

• Analyze

To tell where the evidence is located is to...

• Evidence

• Textual Evidence

• Cite the Evidence

• Infer

Proving a point or an answer by

finding evidence from the story to

support it

• Drama

• Autobiography

• Fiction

• Text Evidence

facts or information indicating something is true

• opinion

• evidence

• paraphrase

• inference

using evidence from a text to help with proving an argument, point, or fact

• textual evidence

• cite

• source

• relevant evidence

_________ is something you find in the text that supports your answer, “In the text it says…”

• Main Idea

• Text Evidence

• Support

• Topic Idea

what is text evidence?

• -paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

• -a specific convention or structure—such as imagery, irony, or foreshadowing—that is employed by the author to produce a given effect.

• -the unique characteristics that describe a writer’s use of language; diction, syntax, sentence fluency, figurative language, and voice all contribute to a writer’s style

• -he strategic integration of two or more modes of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances

a piece of information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article

• fact

• opinion

• retell

• paraphrase