1. Text Lead-Ins
When you have a quote in your SAR or Body Paragraph, make sure you give it a “contextual lead in.”

2. Text Lead-Ins
A “Contextual Lead In” means that you introduce the quote with information summarized from the text.

3. A “2” example
For example, in the text the author writes, “A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion” (Bradbury 39).

4. A “3” Example
When Travis is telling the hunters about the rules, he says, “crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally” (Bradbury 39).

5. A “4” Example
At the end of the story, Eckels steps on a butterfly and later sees it “embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, very beautiful and very dead” (Bradbury 47).

6. Another “4” example
Killing the butterfly was a “small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes” (Bradbury 47).