Citing Evidence Vocabulary

To find the proof in the text to support your answer; sometimes you can use a quote.

• To make an inference

• To quote or mention the source you used

• to cite evidence

To quote or mention the source you used.

• Cite

• conclude

• analyze

• inference

facts or details found in the text that prove your point

• claim

• evidence

• quote

• argument

repeat or copy out (a group of words from a text or speech), typically with an indication that one is not the original author or speaker

• argument

• quote

• claim

• reasoning

To quote the author or text in order to provide evidence to justify reasoning.

• determine

• explain

• list

• cite

Proving a point or an answer by

finding evidence from the story to

support it

• Drama

• Autobiography

• Fiction

• Text Evidence

evidence that is implied and does not always say what it means

• claim

• implicit evidence

• quote

• explicit evidence

Match the following.

• text evidence

• Where does a writer get their information?

• So it can be used to support the claim

• to find the proof in the text to support your answer; sometimes you can use a quote.

• to cite evidence

• Why should your evidence be relevant?

• A source

• part of the text that supports or proves your answer

What does cite mean?

• Something I can see.

• Someplace I can go.

• Analyzing date.

• Saying what my source or evidence is.

In a trial, the jury needs to carefully look at the ________________ to determine whether the defendant is guilty or not.

• evidence

• cite

• claim

• inference