Text Evidence to Support a Claim

Remember that after this lesson you are going to both identify evidence that proves a given claim and make your own claim, supporting it with text evidence and explanation. Take notes from this lesson that you think will help you write your own claims and evidnece.

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Text evidence is...

• Examples from your personal observations

• Examples from your experiences

• Examples from the reading

What did the presenter mean when she said, “Back it up”?

• Be sure you go back and read from the beginning.

• Prove what you claim about a text with specific details from the text.

• If you can’t answer a prompt, go back to a different assignment.

Which type of evidence must you enclose in quotation marks?

• Direct Quotes

• Paraphrases

• Summaries

For which types of text evidence are we required to give credit to the source? Choose all that apply.

• Direct quotes

• Paraphrases

• Summaries