Text evidence anchor chart

Today, I'm here to tell you guys about one of my favorite lessons to teach! It's my Citing Text Evidence Intro Lesson!! CCSS RL1 and RI1 are all about answering questions using text evidence! This lesson is perfect for test prep, especially since PARCC is filled with text evidence questions! Text evidence is always super hard for my third graders, y'all. They don't have a lot of experience citing evidence when they come to me, so an explicit lesson about text evidence is a MUST! So here's…

Teaching upper elementary students how to cite text evidence can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be! With these helpful sentence starters on a citing text evidence anchor chart, it's easier than ever. Whether you're a teacher or parent, this guide will help your 3rd or 4th grader confidently cite text evidence from their reading using clear and concise language. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to confidence in citing text evidence in upper elementary! Get it free with an email…

Teaching students to find text evidence to support their answers is an important reading strategy and test taking strategy. This post contains a FREE text evidence lesson! It includes an anchor chart, text evidence sentence starters, two free reading passages. All of the printables are available for free so you can easily replicate this lesson!

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Do you dread teaching your upper elementary students how to cite text evidence when responding to text? It can be challenging – but it doesn’t have to be! Teaching students how to cite text evidence with sentence starters will make this difficult skill much easier. Once they learn how to do it correctly with these sentence starters, their reading responses will improve! Grab this FREE Student Reference Chart so your 3rd and 4th-grade students can master this important skill! CLICK HERE!

We are SO close to being done with our nonfiction unit, and I’m looking forward to jumping back in to...

Do your students struggle with finding and citing text evidence? Check out this post for text evidence activities, tips, and strategies (with freebies).

Here's a step-by-step guide for teaching students to identify text evidence and support answers to questions with evidence from passages.

A couple of years ago I put together a detective kit. I thought, 'if we want kids to find evidence, we want them to be little detectives.' And another fun introduction was born! So, I found a pencil box and thought about what I could put in the kit... It now has a flashlight, notepad, dry erase marker, cool pen, magnifying glass, post-its and nerdy glasses. Every week I choose a new detective. Of course, it's someone who's been a GREAT detective! I kick off the week by asking students what…

This post is for ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WANTING TO INCREASE WRITTEN COMPREHENSION and RESPONSES!!! This post is full of ideas, suggestions and more to help improve student’s ability to compose text! Now, are you in NC like me? If so, everything below started from being involved in K-3 right here in NC. So this […]