Textual Evidence
We use textual evidence to ________________ our answers, opinions, or ideas about a text we read.
support
What does the A in CEA stand for?
Analyze your evidence
In the text “Drive in Movies”, why did Gary Soto do so many chores?
He wanted to go to the movies.
SWBST stands for...
Somebody Wanted But So Then
_________________ refers to what the text is mainly about and can be stated in just one sentence.
Central Idea
How do you give proper textual evidence? HINT: What three letters do we use?
CEA
What does the E in CEA stand for?
give your evidence
What strategy do we use to summarize a narrative?
SWBST
What questions are answered in the GIST strategy?
Who What When Where Why How
___________is the life lesson, author’s message, or moral of a story.
Theme
Your evidence can be stated in either a _____________ or a _______________.
paraphrase or direct quote
What does the C in CEA stand for?
state your claim
What strategy do we use to summarize an informational text?
GIST
In “A Bad Case of Stripes”, what was the “But”?
But Camilla came down with a bad case of stripes
True or False: Theme is not the same as central idea.
True
________________is when you describe something that the text said without copying directly from the text.
paraphrasing
What is missing from this punctuated direct quote? The author stated, "No act of kindness is ever wasted" Page 5.
the parenthesis
A(n) ______________ text is a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
A(n) _____________________ text educates the reader about a specific topic.
1. narrative
2. informative
In “A Bad Case of Stripes”, what was the “Then”?
Camilla got rid of the stripes and never cared what anyone thought of her again.
Tim hated his old baseball glove. He wanted to play with a new glove. He didn’t have any money, so he decided to steal it. When Tim got caught stealing the glove, his parents said he couldn’t play baseball all summer. What is the central idea of this passage?
Tim was caught stealing a baseball glove and now he cant play baseball all summer.
_________________________is when you include a short part of the text that you copied exactly from the text in your own writing. They need to have quotation marks around them.
Direct Quote
When ___________________ your textual evidence, you explain how the quote(s) or paraphrase(s) you pointed out support your idea or claim.
analyzing
What does Barack Obama believe about education?
Anyone can achieve it, as long as they put in hard work.
In “A Bad Case of Stripes”, what was the “So”?
So an old lady came to her house and fed her lima beans.
Readers have to make ______________ to determine themes in literature because themes are NOT directly stated.
inferences