Locating Text Evidence

When analyzing a claim, the first step is locating the author's claim. What do you do next?

• Decide if the evidence given supports the claim.

• Decide if you like the claim or not.

• Identify the evidence the author gives to support the claim.

• Decide if the evidence is unnecessary or not.

Based on the underlined evidence, Why did the author use those numbers, number words, or amounts?

Over the past five years, Leap for Literacy has grown. He now gives away 2,500 books a year. More than 13,000 students have traded kindness tickets for books. In summer 2020, a new writing program began.

• The numbers tell how long the program has been around.

• The number tells how many books are given away in a year.

• The number tells what new programs are being starts in the Summer of 2020.

• The number shows how successful this program has been and how students have been impacted by kindness.

Based on the underlined evidence, how would answer the anchor question for this signpost?

• The author said it like that because the kids get books.

• The difference is that we do not usually get to trade kindness tickets for books. This matters because kids who cannot afford book can get them by collecting tickets for being kind.

• The author uses those numbers to show us that kids get lots of free books.

• This makes me wonder how many books a kid can get with their tickets.

What is the best answer for the anchor question of the following text evidence? The quickest result when you do something kind for someone "is that smile that comes on their face," said Tucker.

• The difference is that some people smile and that is a good thing.

• The author said it like that because when you do something kind for someone, the first thing you usually see is their smile.

• The author used those numbers because it shows how many people smile at kind acts.

• I know the word quick means fast.

The girl walked down the street with her head hanging down; She had just lost her first soccer game. What detail from the text can tell you how the girl was feeling?

• She lost her first game.

• Her head was hanging down.

• She walked down the street.

The water felt so good on such a hot day! I heard the other children laughing and yelling across the way. The concrete was wet from a group of teenagers splashing each other in the corner. The lifeguard watched closely to keep children from running.

This is at a public pool: what detail from the text best proves this?

• The water felt so good...

• I heard the children laughing...

• The lifeguard watched closely...

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 replied, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence."

• School uniforms can be ordered online.

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

Which sentence suggests that Joanna rode her bike to school?

• Joanna's hair was a little messy when she got to school.

• Joanna went four blocks on her way to school.

• Joanna crossed three streets on her way to school.

• Joanna had to put her helmet inside the classroom closet.

Read the passage below. Which words best help you understand the meaning on the word obedient?

The obedient child always followed her mother's requests. That night, she brushed her teeth, folded her clothes, and went to bed before her mother had to come in and remind her.

• Followed her mother's requests.

• Brushed her teeth.

• Folded her clothes .

• Went to bed.

Which sentence provides the best evidence that the character is feeling anxious?

• A) She tapped her foot rapidly under the table.

• B) She smiled brightly at everyone in the room.

• C) She sat quietly, listening to the conversation.

• D) She laughed at the joke her friend told.