Textual Evidence Brain Tease

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.

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.

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!

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 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."

• According to the text, "At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendance rates went up, and behavior incidents went down" (Paragraph 1).

• School uniforms can be ordered online .

Why do we have textual evidence 

• To prove a claim

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• because your teacher says so

• to express an opinion

Which piece of textual evidence is written correctly?

• Eric heard "June wants to go to the park" (Paragraph 2).

• Eric heard, "June wants to go to the park" (Paragraph 2).

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. 

Which sentence from the text best explain why the ship's navigator must be accurate?

• She checked the course that had been set, because even the slight miscalculations could send the Vulcan Cruiser thousands of miles off course.

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

• It was a risky mission that nobody would have accepted without believing that it was possible.

• She entered the latest information about local weather, dangerous  oribiting space debris, and solar activity.

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.