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…

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

Life in 4B...: RL.7.1 - Make Inferences, Cite Textual Evidence

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I'm popping in really quickly today to share a little freebie with you. Students always need reminders to use evidence from the text, so I thought I'd

3rd grade teacher blog- New teacher tips, lesson ideas for K-4, & freebies for elementary teachers, like a customizable lesson plan template!

Is identifying claims and evidence a challenge for your elementary, middle or high school students? My students loved using short videos and picture books instead of boring nonfiction passages to i…

anchor+charts+for+reading | Show me the evidence Evidence Anchor chart | Teaching Reading

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.