Cite Text Evidence

On a spring night in 2007, disaster struck a small town in Kansas. Winds were more than 200 miles per hour! In less than ten minutes, the town was destroyed! Ten people died. After the storm, people climbed out from their basement through the destroyed buildings. Cars and trucks had been thrown about. Homes were crushed, or ripped from the ground. There’s really nothing left,” said one resident. Explain what happened to the small town using text evidence to prove your answer.

• There was a fire that destroyed the town.

• Cars, trucks, and homes were destroyed.

• The storm only lasted 10 minutes.

• They had a celebration.

To quote from text to help support or prove a point

• credible sources

• cite

• source

• plagiarism

stating the author and page or paragraph number from a source when using a direct quotation

• in-text citation

• paraphrasing

• relevant evidence

• logical reasoning

using evidence from a text to help with proving an argument, point, or fact

• textual evidence

• cite

• source

• relevant evidence

The exact words of someone else woven into your writing, noted by using quotation marks

• cite

• preferred style

• direct quotation

• text

Copying information word for word from the text (direct quote) you are

• determing

• citing

• developing

• drawing

A sentence from the text that supports or explains the ideas from the text is

• an inference

• evidence

• the topic

• textual analysis

When you cite several pieces of evidence, this means you...

• cite 2 pieces of evidence

• write the evidences in your own words

• cite more than 3 pieces of evidence

• expand information

What is explicit textual evidence?

• A conclusion drawn by the reader

• Anything written on a billboard in California

• An inference made by the reader

• Anything directly stated within a text or texts

Which of the following is an example of citing text evidence?

• A) Summarizing the main idea of a paragraph

• B) Quoting a sentence directly from the text

• C) Writing a personal opinion about the text

• D) Describing the text in your own words