1. How do you use evidence from the text to support your response?
Citing Evidence
How do you use evidence from the text to support your response?

2. Let’s Review What is evidence? What is citing?
A fact that supports a claim
What is citing?
Citing= mentioning evidence from a text in your writing

3. There are 3 steps: Locate the evidence in the text
Insert the evidence using quotation marks
Use a phrase and location to tell where you found the evidence

4. 1. Locate the evidence in the text
But for a healthy person, "it would be impossible to overdose on bananas," says Collins. "You would probably need around 400 bananas a day to build up the kind of potassium levels that would cause your heart to stop beating.
What sentence in this paragraph could we use to support our claim that bananas are healthy? Remember, it needs to be a fact!

5. 2. Insert evidence using quotation marks.
“You would probably need around 400 bananas a day to build up the kind of potassium levels that would cause your heart to stop beating.”
What comes first at the end of the sentence? The period or the quotation marks?

6. 3. Use a phrase and location to tell where you found the evidence
Types of phrases
In the article,
In the text,
The author told us that,
The author says,
The author says, “You would probably need around 400 bananas a day to build up the kind of potassium levels that would cause your heart to stop beating.”
What type of punctuation do you see at the end of each phrase in the green box?

7. 3. Use a phrase and location to tell where you found the evidence
Types of Locations
(pg. 1)
(para. 4)
(line 2)
The author says, “You would probably need around 400 bananas a day to build up the kind of potassium levels that would cause your heart to stop beating.” (para. 8)
What type of punctuation do you see with each type of location in the green box? (parenthesis)
In our article, we number our paragraphs. Which one of these choices would work best with our evidence?

8. You Try! Follow our three steps for the following piece of evidence:
A healthy person can consume at least seven-and-half bananas before reaching the recommended level.

9. You Try! Your sentence should look something like this:
The author tells us that “A healthy person can consume at least seven-and-a-half bananas before reaching the recommended level.”
But wait…Something is missing! Can you spot it?

10. You Try! That’s right! It was the comma.
The author tells us that, “A healthy person can consume at least seven-and-a-half bananas before reaching the recommended level.”