Free Printable Trivium 12 - Evidence and Credibility

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Trivium 12 - Evidence and Credibility

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 26mins

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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.

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.

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 .

The Food Group Pyramid tells how to eat healthy. It shows how food is divided into six groups. It is important to eat foods that belong to each group every day. The pyramid helps show how much of each you should eat.
What is the author's purpose?

to tell a story about pyramids

to inform you about the Food Group Pyramid

to convince you to eat vegetables

to explain how to go shopping for food

proof is also known as

citing

evidence

metaphor

support

The dentist said less sugar, cause sugar can give you cavities.

claim

evidence

ravioli are the most flavorful.

claim

evidence

You may be surprised to hear that earthquakes are not rare. In fact, earthquakes happen every day somewhere in the world. Most of them are weak. There are times, however, when an earthquake is very powerful and causes a lot of damage. One strong earthquake can destroy houses, bridges, railroad tracks, and more.

Can you describe why earthquakes are so dangerous?

Earthquakes are rare.

It can destroy houses, bridges, railroad tracks and other things.

They only happen in North America.

Earthquakes are mostly weak.

One way to check the accuracy of the content is to

Check wikipedia

Cross check the information with other credible sources

Ask a friend if it looks right

10.

What source isn't credible?

A webpage with an unidentified author or affiliation

A webpage from a college or university

A government webpage

A peer reviewed article

11.

Choose the one that is NOT a reliable source.

Newspaper

Book

Organization website

Customer review

12.

A credible source is a source of information that is:

unbiased

supported by evidence

written by a professional author

posted on social media

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Trivium 12 - Evidence and Credibility

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 26mins

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