Teaching text evidence

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

Students struggling with identifying text evidence? I have 5 unique lesson ideas for you to try today! Come check these out!

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.

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

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

Tips on teaching students how to show evidence from the text.

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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