Fun ways of teaching your students how to cite text evidence when speaking & answering a text-based prompt. Tips & Ideas for ELA teachers
Are your students having trouble finding answers and citing evidence in their reading? This STEP-BY-STEP process scaffolds through reading strategies to help your students be successful! Students will learn the acronyms for ACE, RACE, and RAP to provide them with the proper tools for citing evidence effectively along with
Here's a step-by-step guide for teaching students to identify text evidence and support answers to questions with evidence from passages.
Teaching text evidence is a HUGE part of the upper elementary classroom. It can be tiresome for kids, but it is important. I try to teach it very explicitly for one week and then review it every week after that! Today, I am going to share all the ways that I teach text evidence to make sure that my kids really understand it.
Students struggling with identifying text evidence? I have 5 unique lesson ideas for you to try today! Come check these out!
Do your students struggle with finding and citing text evidence? Check out this post for text evidence activities, tips, and strategies (with freebies).
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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 skill.
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).
Are your students having trouble finding answers and citing evidence in their reading? This STEP-BY-STEP process scaffolds through reading strategies to help your students be successful! Students will learn the acronyms for ACE, RACE, and RAP to provide them with the proper tools for citing evidence effectively along with
It’s no secret that citing text evidence is an important skill in elementary classrooms. I always tell my students that school is filled with times where you will be asked to prove that you understand what you read. This is easier for kids who have strengthened their metacognitive skills throughout
Do you dread teaching students how to cite text evidence? Make this process easier with sentence starters!
Do your students struggle with citing and embedding quotations within their writing? This blog post will share creative, unique, and engaging activities will get your students practicing and applying these skills while having FUN!
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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 "concentration." :) Don't get me wrong- I love spirit week because I can wear jeans or comfy clothes. Plus the kiddos deserved some fun distractions. BUT. It was a complete battle between spirit/fun and testing/instruction all week. I finally had a "come to jesus" talk with the class on Friday. I actually think it helped. Last year, if I had a talk like that with my firsties, I wasn't always sure it got through, but with third graders this year, it was actually a mutual discussion. We'll see, that might just be my Saturday-induced optimism talking.... :) Speaking of spring fever, I just finished my newest "Spring Fling" and "Happy Snails" clipart sets and posted them to my store! I have used a lot of pastel colors in my spring sets, but I made a new color scheme for these sets (and some other spring sets I plan on making) because I needed some extra energizing sets after this week! Check out these little splashes of spring color.... If you want to check out these sets in my store, you can click on the links below. Happy Snails: $2.00 Spring Fling: $4.00 Onto the other part of my random blog title......If there was one word that would be tattooed across my forehead lately, it would be "EVIDENCE." If I had a dollar for every time I said that word ("Where's your evidence?" "Find evidence to support your claim" "Support your answers with evidence" "Find the evidence in the text" "Do you have evidence for that?" ETC), I could retire. Surprisingly, it doesn't bother my kiddos at all and they FEED off of showing evidence. For this reason, the most precious half piece of paper in my classroom is this little beauty: I made up my own version of a "Showing Evidence" reference sheet because I needed it to include a few more evidence stems than the ones I was finding on TpT or pinterest. In our reading lessons, we are focusing on the kiddos using text AND visual cues, so I wanted some stems specific to each. Also, we have discussed how to talk about poetry, so I wanted one in there with "stanza." My students have been using these little reference strips in pretty much every subject! They even started pulling them out in math and changing some of the wording around to work with their conclusions based on graphs, charts and word problems. God bless them and their evidence-eager hearts! One of my kids suggested that I laminate them for each student so they can "take it to fourth grade with them." I told him that I would make a special "Showing Evidence in Fourth Grade" strip....printed in COLOR....and laminated for everyone in the class if they found evidence to answer every reading comp question on the DCAS (state test). I hope I will be needing to buy lots of color ink soon! If you think your kiddos could use these same strips, you can snatch them up below from google docs. I just print them out and cut them down the middle. And, per my student's suggestion, you could laminate them so they last forever and ever :) {Snatch it HERE} Don't forget to turn your clocks ahead before bed tonight. Nothing like LOSING and hour of sleep- but at least it is more EVIDENCE that spring is on it's way......sorry I couldn't resist :)
In this guest teacher post, Tammy Anfang describes a writing framework to improve student learning. Making the Invisible Process of Reading and Responding Visible About ten years ago when I taught my first Special Education inclusion class, one of my 7th grade students approached me and asked, directly and honestly, “When you tell us to visualize or ‘play the movie in our minds’ when we read, how do I do that?” I stood there and thought to myself, “You just do it.” At that moment I realized I
It’s no secret that citing text evidence is an important skill in elementary classrooms. I always tell my students that school is filled with times where you will be asked to prove that you understand what you read. This is easier for kids who have strengthened their metacognitive skills throughout
The ORIGINAL Text Detectives for Color-Coded Comprehension & Text Evidence! :) Do your students have trouble finding text evidence to support their answers to basic comprehension questions? After reading short passages, your students will underline the textual evidence that answers each basic comprehension question using a simple color-code. Perfect for introducing close reading! The April pack is perfect for learning about Earth Day, National Poetry Month, and special holidays from April Fools Day to School Librarian Day to Opening Day of baseball! This Text Detectives pack includes 11 non-fiction passages: - Earth Day - Pollution on Everest, Coral Bleaching, and the Hole in the Ozone Layer - Opening Day of America’s Pastime - Taxes and the Boston Tea Party - The Sinking of the Titanic - Plants - Yuri’s Night - Endangered Animals - Water Cycle - Biography: Shel Silverstein This pack also includes 5 fiction passages: - April Fools! - Recycling: From Flub to Club - School Librarian Day - April Showers - Eggstravaganza There is also one poem: - National Poetry Month Aligned to CCSS R.L. 2.1, R.L. 3.1, R.L. 4.1 and R.I. 2.1, R.I. 3.1, and R.I 4.1, this Text Detectives pack is easy to use in your classroom as morning work, reading comprehension practice, a center activity, or homework. These can even be used to assess your students' ability to prove their answers in the text or as a relevant and engaging test prep activity! Many passages integrate seasonal science or social studies content to support your content instruction, but others are more generic to give you planning flexibility. I love using these passages with my RTI students in Title I or reading intervention! Not sure if the reading level will be right for your students? Please download the free Text Detectives sampler in my store to try out a few passages! If you enjoy this product, be sure to follow my store or blog to be notified when I post Super Text Detective packs for future months! :) You can also see my other packs below: Text Detectives- November Edition Text Detectives- December Edition Text Detectives- January Edition Text Detectives- February Edition Text Detectives- March Edition You can also SAVE by buying a bundle! Text Detectives- Fall Bundle Text Detectives- Spring Bundle Text Detectives- Through the Year Bundle
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 skill.
Tips on teaching students how to show evidence from the text.
Here's a step-by-step guide for teaching students to identify text evidence and support answers to questions with evidence from passages.
