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Text Evidence - Mini Lesson and Activities

Text Evidence Mini Lesson

I love when my students are about to answer a question about a text. I do not love when they leave out their support. This lesson will help you give your students practice with analyzing text and supporting answers with text evidence. It is a fast and engaging way to teach and introduce text evidence to your middle school students.

This Product Includes:

Google Slides Presentation: 15 colorful and engaging slides that introduce the concept of text evidence.
Notes: Defines and explains text evidence, how to analyze, direct quotation, paraphrase, and summary.
Vocabulary Practice: Practice the five terms with Quizizz. Link and instructions included.
Instructional Video: Video where I walk students through the slides and help them gain an understanding of how to infer.
Fill in the Blank Notes: Guided notes to help your students follow along with the lesson.

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Link to a Google Slides Download
Link to a YouTube Instructional Video
PDF Versions
Teacher Instructions

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Text Evidence: The Quest Activity Pack

Text Evidence Quests

These quests are an engaging and creative way to help your students practice supporting answers with the three types of text evidence: quotes, paraphrasing, and summaries.

The Quests:

Quest 1-4: Students will analyze the lyrics to a song and answer a question using evidence from the lyrics.
Quest 5: Students will select their own school appropriate song, write a question, and then answer it using text evidence.

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Link to a Google Slides Download and Google Doc version
Links to each song on the Google Slide
PDF Versions
Teacher Instructions

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Writing Constructed Responses with RTQT

A framework to help students use text evidence to support their answers.

Writing Constructed Responses with the RTQT Framework

This four-step process will help your middle school students write quality constructed responses with textual evidence.

This Product Includes:

Google Slides Notes: 20 colorful and interactive slides that walk students through how to write a 4 sentence response.
Practice Activities: Built-in activities that help your students learn how to restate the question. There is also a short passage with a question that can be used to model how to write the constructed response using the RTQT framework.
Printable Poster: Help your students remember the framework with this poster. The poster can be printed and used on a bulletin board and as a resource in student’s notebooks.
Fill in the Blank Notes: Help your students follow along with the lesson with guided notes.