Supporting with text evidence

What does it mean to "cite" text evidence?

• Use it to answer the question

• Give the source of the quote (page or line number and author)

• Put it in your own words

• Explain it

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.8

When you copy evidence from a text, you always have to use:

• quotation marks

• parentheses

• question marks

• your brain

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2B

CCSS.W.6.8

What is this response missing?

Salvador was lonely. He is a boy who is no one's friend (para 1). People who have no friends usually feel sad and alone because they have no one to hang out and have fun with.

• paragraph number

• text evidence

• quotation marks around text evidence

• elaboration

What is this response missing?

Salvador does not have any confidence. His throat "must clear itself and apologize each time it speaks" (para, 3).

• Text evidence

• Citation for the evidence

• Quotation marks

• Elaboration/explanation

What is this response missing?

"Shakes the sleepy brothers awake, ties their shoes, combs their hair with water" (para.1). Salvador is responsible for helping his brothers get ready in the morning, which is usually a parent's job.

• Text evidence

• Citation for text evidence

• Elaboration

• Transition into text evidence

What is this text evidence missing?

"Salvador with eyes the color of caterpillar."

• Quotation marks

• Citation

What is this text evidence missing?

Helps his mama, who is busy with the business of the baby (par. 2).

• quotation marks

• citation

Which text evidence is cited correctly?

• Salvador has a "hundred balloons of happiness."

• Salvador has a hundred balloons of happiness (para. 3).

• Salvador has a hundred balloons of happiness.

• Salvador has a "hundred balloons of happiness" (para. 3)..

Which text evidence is cited correctly?

• Salvador leaves with his brothers and "dissolves into the bright horizon."

• Salvador leaves with his brothers and "dissolves into the bright horizon" (par. 3).

• Salvador leaves with his brothers and dissolves into the bright horizon.

• Salvador leaves with his brothers and dissolves into the bright horizon (para. 3).

Read this response:

Salvador felt invisible to the world around him. At the end of the story, he "flutters in the air before disappearing like a memory of kites" (para. 3).

Which of the following sentences provides the strongest elaboration?

• This means that Salvador disappeared like a kite.

• Just like memories fade away, Salvador, too, fades from the attention of those he comes in contact with.

• No one likes Salvador because no one likes kites.

• This means that Salvador feels invisible.