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

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…

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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…

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

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.

Students struggle with citing text evidence. These sentence starters should help to improve the quality of their written responses.

Teaching students to cite evidence from the text can be tricky but is so essential for upper elementary students. Today, I’m sharing one idea for helping introduce your students to the idea of citing evidence accurately. Yesterday, we spent our small group time reading a passage, discussing it, and completing a graphic organizer. Today, we […]