Textual Evidence

What is textual evidence?

• You 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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.1B

CCSS.W.6.9A

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.W.6.1A

CCSS.W.6.1B

CCSS.W.6.9A

What is an inference?

• Something you have a gut feeling about.
• An educated guess.
• Evidence that supports your claim.
• What the story is mostly about.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

textual evidence is

• using quotations, summaries and paraphrasing from a text to support a position

• proof

• a detailed examination the elements or structure of something

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

when citing a source you should use

• an exclamation point

• a semi colon or colon

• quotations

• a period at the end of the sentence

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RI.3.5

proof is also known as

• citing

• evidence

• metaphor

• support

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

Michael loves cheeseburgers and will could eat one everyday. He orders a cheeseburger for dinner.

The author writes that, "he orders a cheeseburger for dinner."

• Explicit

• Implicit

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

Whenever Teresa is around a cat she sneezes, coughs and breaks out in hives. Because Teresa, "sneezes, coughs and breaks out in hives." the narrator is inferring that she is allergic to cats and does not like them.

• Implicit

• Explicit

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

What does a strongly supported inference need?

• Background knowledge and textual evidence that answers the question or writing prompt.

• Background knowledge and an explanation of why the narrator is writing the text.

• Lots of textual evidence. The more the better!

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

Before I can include my textual evidence, what do I need to add?

• A citation.
• My opinion.
• A concluding statement.
• A transition or lead.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1