Text Evidence
This type of text evidence is directly stated in the text.
What is explicit evidence?
This character detail from the text suggests that Teddy's father has experience with other mongooses before.
What is Teddy's father knows that Teddy is safe with the mongoose?
This type of text connection helps a reader to make personal connections to characters or events in the story.
What is text-to-self connections?
This is where Mr. Pigg went to high school.
What is Marshall County High School?
This type of text evidence is implied, but not directly stated in the text.
What is implicit evidence?
This particular paragraph suggests that Rikki Tikki had never actually fought a snake before the beginning of the story.
What is paragraph 35?
This type of text connection helps a reader to make connections to things they have seen or heard in the society around them.
What is text-to-world connections?
This is a way of interpreting implicit evidence using clues from the text and your own experiences to make logical decisions about characters and events that are not stated directly.
What is making an inference?
This piece of evidence from the text suggests that Darzee's wife is brave.
What is Darzee's wife distracts Nagaina by acting like her wing is broken?
This type of text connection helps a reader make connections to another story they have read or watched before.
This piece of evidence from the text could be used to support the claim that Darzee is actually the most compassionate character in the story.
What is "And just because he knew that Nagaina's children were born in eggs like his own, he didn't think at first that it was fair to kill them."
This particular character trait shows us that each of the female characters (Teddy's mother, Darzee's wife, and Nagaina) are similar in one way.
This type of annotation helps readers to follow the sequence of events as they take place throughout a story.
What is tracking?