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Using text evidence to support your claims. TEXT DETECTIVES
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READING IS DETECTIVE WORK Good readers use specific evidence to support claims made about texts.
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PROVE IT! Evidence is proof from the text to support your claim. Text evidence supports what you say. Justify your written responses by using evidence to prove your claim.
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CITING TEXT EVIDENCE-RULES You need to specifically cite your evidence using some rules. LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION You need to say the exact paragraph or page number you found your evidence in/on. You should say who the author is. The More Evidence the Better Use more than one piece of evidence to support your claim. DOT YOUR i-s and CROSS YOUR Ts You should put quotation marks around the evidence you took from the text.
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SENTENCE STARTERS Here are some sentence starters you can use to introduce your evidence: For example, For instance, According to the text, Based on the text, The author stated In paragraph (number), the author states, Because According to the author in paragraph (#),
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PRACTICE PROVING STUFF! Listen carefully to the story Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion. http://www.storylineonline.net/harry-the-dirty-dog/
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PRACTICE PROVING STUFF QUESTION: How does the reader know that Harry does not like taking baths? Use the RACE strategy and your sentence starter tips to respond. R restate A answer C cite E explain
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EVIDENCE
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WRITTEN RESPONSE-SAMPLE According to the text, we know that Harry does not like to take baths because the author states on pages 4 and 5 that Harry steals the brush and hides it. In addition, the text also states on page 6 that Harry runs away when he thinks he is about to get a bath.
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TEXT DETECTIVES-REVIEW THE EVIDENCE TEXT DETECTIVES Successful Readers find and use evidence from the text to support their responses. Strong Writers support their claims with evidence from the text.
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