Citing Textual Evidence

What are the steps to citing evidence?

• State your idea, explain your reasons, and summarize

• Explain your reasons and cite evidence

• State your idea, cite evidence, and explain 

• Cite evidence and explain the evidence

Thunder struck and rain poured. Max stared blankly out the window, trying to contain his emotions that raged like the weather. He was beginning to lose it. Dropping the kite from his hand, Max broke out into full sob. His mother comforted him, "There, there, Max. We'll just find something else to do." She began to unpack the picnic basket that was on the counter and offered him a sandwich. Max snapped, "I don't wanna sand-mich!" A flash from the sky lit up the living room. Boom! Mom sighed.
What lines from the text support the idea that Mom and Max were going to go on a picnic?

• She began to unpack the picnic basket

• Max stares blankly out the window

• Mom offers Max a sandwich

• His mother conforted him

The definition of support is?

• Back up an answer with details. Prove. Provide evidence.

• Give the short version: main idea + the beginning, middle, end.

• Take your best guess on what will happen next.

• Tell how something happened. Tell the steps.

What does explicit mean?

• A guess

• Evidence that is directly stated in the text

• A conclusion based off of facts and reasoning

Which piece of evidence could BEST be used to prove this claim:

The government SHOULD decide what students eat for lunch.

• School lunches, on average have only about 550 calories;however, lunches brought from home have about 850 calories.

• The rules make lunches cheap for students, but they cost schools money.

• The GAO report said that students in one district refused to eat school lunches for three weeks.

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.

• At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendence rates went up, and behavior incidents went down.

• A student reported, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence."

• School uniforms can be ordered online .

Which is an example of a textual evidence?

• My opinion after reading.

• Proof in the article.

• A word for word quote from the article/story

• A made-up quote I add to my answer.

A 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

when citing a source you should use

• an exclamation point

• a semi colon or colon

• quotations

• a period at the end of the sentence

proof is also known as

• citing

• evidence

• metaphor

• support