Citing text evidence anchor chart

Today, I'm here to tell you guys about one of my favorite lessons to teach! It's my Citing Text Evidence Intro Lesson!! CCSS RL1 and RI1 are all about answering questions using text evidence! This lesson is perfect for test prep, especially since PARCC is filled with text evidence questions! Text evidence is always super hard for my third graders, y'all. They don't have a lot of experience citing evidence when they come to me, so an explicit lesson about text evidence is a MUST! So here's…

Teaching upper elementary students how to cite text evidence can be a challenge, but with these helpful sentence starters and citing text evidence anchor chart, it's easier than ever! Whether you're a teacher or a parent, this guide will help you teach your 3rd or 4th grade student how to cite evidence from their reading using clear and concise language. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to confidence with citing text evidence in upper elementary! Click here to learn more!

Do your students struggle with finding and citing text evidence? Check out this post for text evidence activities, tips, and strategies (with freebies).

While writing our literary analysis essays, I noticed my students struggled with introducing their textual evidence. They just kind of plopped it in without introducing it or setting up the context of the evidence. To fix this up, today when we revised our draft for transitions, I threw in some teaching about transitions to use to introduce textual evidence. It definitely helped! #middleschoolela #iteachmiddle

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Last week, we talked about how READING is THINKING! Your inner voice should talk to you while you're reading and say things like, "This part is confusing..." or "I predict this will happen..." or "That makes me think of this one time when I..." or "Now I get it!" I modeled how to use post-its to flag thoughts in my book while I was reading and 'code' them with the kind of thought it was. Students then did the same thing for their independent chapter books. This led naturally into students…

Knowing the answer is one thing...but being able to justify your thinking by citing text is an entirely different type of skill. Taking the text and combing through it, like an old man at the beach with a metal detector, determined to find some treasures, not only takes strong reading comprehension skills, but also takes some perseverance, to find what we're looking for. In this post by The Teacher Next Door, I'll share the six steps I use in my classroom, to teach this important reading…

Here's a step-by-step guide for teaching students to identify text evidence and support answers to questions with evidence from passages.

If the titles of my blog posts are any indication of how well I can focus on one specific task- that doesn't look very good. I never can focus on one thing in these blog posts- hence the extremely long and random combinations in my titles :) My kiddos were WIRED this week! They definitely have spring fever. My. goodness. It probably didn't help that it was Dr. Seuss day on Monday and we had a spirit week the rest of the days. Something about Wacky Wednesday doesn't exactly scream…

This post is for ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WANTING TO INCREASE WRITTEN COMPREHENSION and RESPONSES!!! This post is full of ideas, suggestions and more to help improve student’s ability to compose text! Now, are you in NC like me? If so, everything below started from being involved in K-3 right here in NC. So this […]