Cite Textual Evidence

Which piece of evidence supports that Kathleen is brave?

• Even slight miscalculations could send the Vulcan cruiser thousands of miles off course.

• Kathleen might never see her parents again.

• Kathleen reassured them with a confident look as she logged onto the navigation computer.

• Something could go wrong during takeoff. 

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.

To show where you found your answer is to?

• Topic

• Text

• Cite

• Support

What are supporting details in a text?

• Specific pieces of information that provide evidence or examples to support the main idea or thesis statement of the text.

• Background information that is not relevant to the main idea of the text.

• Opinions expressed by the author that are not supported by evidence.

• General statements that are unrelated to the main idea of the text.

When reading literature, it is important to cite text evidence to support your analysis of the most important details and events of a story. In addition to citing text evidence to answer comprehension questions, you can also use text evidence to make inferences.

• True

• False

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 .

After answering the question, I need to add __________ to my paragraph?

• Support my answer with further details and examples from the text.

• Another answer

• My opinion

What do you use from the passage to prove your answer

• text evidence

• plagarism

• credible source

• central idea

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.

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!