Text evidence sentence starters

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…

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

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

Enjoy this free printable: Textual Evidence Sentence Starters!

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Teaching upper elementary students how to cite text evidence can be a challenge, but with these helpful sentence starters and citing text evidence anchor chart, it's easier than ever! Whether you're a teacher or a parent, this guide will help you teach your 3rd or 4th grade student how to cite evidence from their reading using clear and concise language. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to confidence with citing text evidence in upper elementary! Click here to learn more!

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

Sentence Starters and Transitions Anchor Chart for Informational Writing! Helps Grade 1-3 students transition from their topic sentence, to points, facts, and closing. Great support for independent writing.