Text Evidence is citing proof in the reading.

How to teach students to use text evidence. Students will learn the acronyms for ACE and RAP to provide them with the proper tools for citing evidence effectively along with tips to motivate them through color-coding. Teaching Students to Find Text Evidence Teach the Importance of Finding Evidence. Usually this is as far as students take the response.

Next comes the hunt for clues. I also really want to make sure my student understand why they are searching. Using a short piece of text have students read through it once and then fill in the observation from the text section.

One way to do teach your students how to cite text evidence is by introducing ACE Acronym. Depending upon your set of standards and which grade you teach you may be required to teach your students to write text evidence questions as constructed response answers. Read through the text thoroughly.

This helps children to see beyond the words they read and understand the narrative and information value the text carries. Text evidence is any evidence from a fiction or nonfiction text that can be used to support ideas arguments opinions and thoughts. Who What When Where Why How.

Then ask students to compare their evaluations in pairs and to create a combined evaluation. Here are the basic steps. Students will then produce and improved evaluation but will also improve each others mental model of evaluation slightly.

Students read the text a second time highlighting and annotating if possible or simply jotting their ideas in the thinking bubbles. C Cite Text Evidence. Text is written work.