TEXT DETECTIVES Using text evidence to support your

TEXT DETECTIVES Using text evidence to support your claims.

READING IS DETECTIVE WORK • Good readers use specific evidence to support claims made about texts.

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.

CITING TEXT EVIDENCE-RULES You need to specifically cite your evidence using some rules. 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.

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 (#),

PRACTICE PROVING STUFF! • Listen carefully to the story Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion. • http: //www. storylineonline. net/harry-thedirty-dog/

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

EVIDENCE

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.

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.