Text Evidence
This is the term for a quote or detail taken directly from a passage to support your answer or opinion.
What is text evidence?
This is what you do when the author doesn’t say something directly, but you figure it out anyway.
What is making an inference?
This is the big point or message the author wants you to understand.
What is main idea?
This text structure tells about things that are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
This is something that happens, like a historical moment or a personal experience.
What is event?
This type of text evidence is word-for-word from the text and is placed in quotation marks.
What is direct quote?
You use these two things to make a strong inference.
What is text clues and background knowledge?
These are the smaller pieces of information that support or explain the main idea.
What is key details?
This text structure explains a problem and how it can be fixed.
What is problem and solution?
“It didn’t rain for months, so the crops dried up.” What is the effect?
What is the crops dried up?
This is the first thing you should do before finding text evidence in a passage.
What is read the text carefully?
You read an article that says a girl packed sunscreen, flip-flops, and a beach towel. You can infer she is going where?
What is the beach?
If a paragraph is mostly about how bees collect nectar, what is the main idea?
What is how bees collect nectar?
This structure shows how or why one thing leads to another.
What is cause and effect?
This is an important thought or topic the author wants to explain, like “democracy” or “gravity".
What is concept?
This kind of text evidence uses your own words to summarize a part of the text instead of quoting it directly.
What is paraphrasing?
In an informational text about animals in the Arctic, the author describes thick fur and fat layers. What can you infer about the environment?
What is it cold?
You read: "Tornadoes can destroy buildings, flip cars, and knock down trees." What is the main idea?
What is tornadoes can cause serious damage?
This structure tells events in the order they happened.
What is sequence and order?
This is what you call a piece of information or opinion the author wants to share and support with details.
What is idea?
When asked, "How do you know?" after reading a passage, this is what you should do
What is go back to the text and find evidence?
A nonfiction article says a city had “record-breaking temperatures and water shortages.” What can you infer is happening there?
What is drought or 'extreme heat'?
What should you ask yourself to figure out the main idea of a passage?
What is “What is this mostly about?” or “What is the author trying to tell me?”
This structure gives details about a topic to help you picture it in your mind.
What is description?
You read: “Due to heavy traffic, the bus was late. As a result, students missed the assembly.” What is the main cause and what are the effects?
Cause: what is heavy traffic?
Effect: what is the bus was late and students missed the assembly?