Text evidence anchor chart

Teaching students to find text evidence to support their answers is an important reading strategy and test taking strategy. This post contains a FREE text evidence lesson! It includes an anchor chart, text evidence sentence starters, two free reading passages. All of the printables are available for free so you can easily replicate this lesson!

Teaching upper elementary students how to cite text evidence can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be! With these helpful sentence starters on a citing text evidence anchor chart, it's easier than ever. Whether you're a teacher or parent, this guide will help your 3rd or 4th grader confidently cite text evidence from their reading using clear and concise language. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to confidence in citing text evidence in upper elementary! Get it free with an email…

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…

These 13 teacher and expert-tested strategies (plus 10 anchor charts) will strengthen your students' ability to find and use evidence from any text.

A couple of years ago I put together a detective kit. I thought, 'if we want kids to find evidence, we want them to be little detectives.' And another fun introduction was born! So, I found a pencil box and thought about what I could put in the kit... It now has a flashlight, notepad, dry erase marker, cool pen, magnifying glass, post-its and nerdy glasses. Every week I choose a new detective. Of course, it's someone who's been a GREAT detective! I kick off the week by asking students what…

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As we move into a social studies world that is asking kids to collect evidence, organize evidence, create products, and communicate results, writing skills are becoming more and more important. But…

Text Evidence Anchor Chart; ELL friendly!

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

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

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…

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Upper elementary teachers, rejoice! Teaching text structures doesn't have to be difficult! In this post I'll share easy, no-fluff ways...

These 13 teacher and expert-tested strategies (plus 10 anchor charts) will strengthen your students' ability to find and use evidence from any text.

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Citing text evidence chart. Will give a copy to past in my ELL and Special Ed students' interactive science journal.

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