Text Evidence Worksheets

The girl walked down the street with her head hanging down; She had just lost her first soccer game. What detail from the text can tell you how the girl was feeling?

• She lost her first game.

• Her head was hanging down.

• She walked down the street.

The water felt so good on such a hot day! I heard the other children laughing and yelling across the way. The concrete was wet from a group of teenagers splashing each other in the corner. The lifeguard watched closely to keep children from running.

This is at a public pool: what detail from the text best proves this?

• The water felt so good...

• I heard the children laughing...

• The lifeguard watched closely...

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 replied, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence."

• School uniforms can be ordered online.

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

Which sentence suggests that Joanna rode her bike to school?

• Joanna's hair was a little messy when she got to school.

• Joanna went four blocks on her way to school.

• Joanna crossed three streets on her way to school.

• Joanna had to put her helmet inside the classroom closet.

How could you find out what armadillos use their claws for?

• By asking Mr. Silva

• By watching a movie about a funny armadillo

• By finding the evidence in the text

• By guessing

Label the picture with the matching vocabulary word.

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Michael woke up with a start. Someone was banging at the front door. Heavy footsteps clomped over the bare boards of the hallway. A shouting of voices. Jacko's familiar growl, then the front door slammed shut. Michael shivered and pulled the thin blanket closer around his shoulders. Through the cracked glass of the curtainless window, the sky looked gray and dirty. A groan from the other mattress told him that Toby was awake as well. Which words help describe the setting?

• "A shouting of voices."

• "...cracked glass of the curtainless window..."

• "Michael woke up with a start."

• "...Toby was awake as well."

Michael woke up with a start. Someone was banging at the front door. Heavy footsteps clomped over the bare boards of the hallway. A shouting of voices. Jacko's familiar growl, then the front door slammed shut. Michael shivered and pulled the thin blanket closer around his shoulders. Through the cracked glass of the curtainless window, the sky looked gray and dirty. A groan from the other mattress told him that Toby was awake as well. Which of the following would be considered explicit textual evidence?

• Toby is Michael's brother

• "the sky looked gray and dirty"

• Michael was trying to sleep

• Michael and Toby were cold

The words or sentences that come before and after a word that readers use to figure out the meaning of unknown words are called...

• Context Clues

• Evaluate

• Text

• Analyze