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…

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…

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

Enjoy this free printable: Textual Evidence Sentence Starters!

Do you dread teaching students how to cite text evidence? Make this process easier with sentence starters!

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Teach your students how to cite a text by learning about the prerequisite skills. Students will need to know how to restate a question and practice quotation marks first. Then, scaffold learning with sentence starters, color coding, using text-specific questions, and modifying the RACE strategy. Find out what the next step is after students master citing textual evidence.

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