Cite Evidence

What is textual evidence?

• Your 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.

To show where you found your answer is to?

• Topic

• Text

• Cite

• Support

When reading literature, it is important to cite text evidence to support your analysis of the most important details and events of a story. In addition to citing text evidence to answer comprehension questions, you can also use text evidence to make inferences.

• True

• False

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."

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

• School uniforms can be ordered online .

What do you use from the passage to prove your answer

• text evidence

• plagarism

• credible source

• central idea

when citing a source you should use

• an exclamation point

• a semi colon or colon

• quotations

• a period at the end of the sentence

facts and/or information (quotes, statistics, graphs, etc.) presented together as a body of support for a claim or value statement.

• analysis

• evidence

• inference

• cheese

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.

How does citing textual evidence help in understanding a text?

• It provides a personal opinion.

• It offers a summary of the text.

• It gives specific examples that support analysis.

• It makes the text more entertaining.

What should you include when citing textual evidence?

• Your own thoughts.

• The author's name and page number.

• A summary of the text.

• An unrelated fact.