EVIDENCE EVIDENCE PRETEST Directions Write 3 evidences to

EVIDENCE

EVIDENCE PRE-TEST Directions: Write 3 evidences to develop the following topic sentence. Support each evidence with an explanation. Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph explaining three ways that STOMP behavior affects our school. Topic Sentence: STOMP behavior affects our school in three ways. Evidence 1 – Evidence 2 – Evidence 3 –

EVIDENCE Evidence – Facts / Quotes Develop the topic Are purposefully organized

GO Ahead and State Your Topic SLOW DOWN And Give Your Evidence

EVIDENCE Evidence – What the Text Says

What makes you think I ate the last cookie? EVIDENCE Topic – Who ate the cookie? Evidence 1 – The cookie is gone. Evidence 2 – The little girl has cookie crumbs on her face.

EVIDENCE 1. Select evidence that supports your topic. 2. Put your evidence in a logical order.

Whole Group Practice: Select your evidence. Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph about the key characteristics of an ecosystem. Topic Sentence: Sentence The desert ecosystem has many characteristics. Deserts are fantastic ecosystems. Deserts get very little rain. Deserts have both very hot and very cold temperatures. Snakes live in deserts. No – This is an opinion, not a fact, example, or quote. Yes – This is a fact that about one characteristic of the desert ecosystem. No – This is a fact, but it is not a characteristic of an ecosystem.

Whole Group Practice: Put your evidence in a logical order. Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph about the key characteristics of an ecosystem. Topic Sentence: Sentence The desert ecosystem has many characteristics. Deserts get very little rain. Deserts have both very hot and very cold temperatures. 1 – This fact is the most important characteristic about deserts. 2 – This fact is caused not as well known. It’s also caused by the first fact.

Small Group Practice: Select your evidence. Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph about how producers survive in a specific ecosystem. Topic Sentence: Sentence The producers in a desert ecosystem have to live without much water. A woodpecker can live in a saguaro. Deserts are hard places for producers to live. Desert cactus store water in their spines. Desert shrubs have waxy leaves that hold in water. No – This fact is not about the producer. No – This fact focuses on the desert, not a producer. Yes – This fact is about how a producer survives in the desert.

Small Group Practice: Put your evidence in a logical order. Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph about how producers survive in a specific ecosystem. Topic Sentence: Sentence The producers in a desert ecosystem have to live without much water. Desert cactus store water in their spines. Desert shrubs have waxy leaves that hold in water. 1 – This plant is the most well known producer in a desert. 2 – This plant is not as well known.

EVIDENCE PRE-TEST Safety is first because it is the most important. ADVANCED SUPPORT STOMP behavior affects our school in three ways. First, STOMP behavior helps people feel safe. STOMP behavior also keeps our school Being safe and clean makes our school enjoyable. clean. Finally, STOMP behavior makes people enjoy being here.

EVIDENCE Advanced Description Example 3+ evidences develop the topic in a purposeful order Partially Proficient 3+ evidences develop the topic. • STOMP behavior helps keeps our school people feel safe. clean. • STOMP behavior keeps • STOMP behavior our school clean. makes people enjoy • STOMP behavior being here. helps people feel safe. 1 -2 evidences develop the topic. Unsatisfactory • STOMP behavior keeps • our school clean. • STOMP behavior makes people enjoy being here. Evidence does not develop the topic. STOMP behavior means showing respect.