The website Newsela also has interesting articles. Chicken Soup for the Soul has some great one-page stories that can be used. Keeping lessons high interest will make most kids tune in and be ready to learn.Ī few sources for interesting, short text…I like to use Scholastic Magazine or Weekly Reader. So, do make sure that the passages you are choosing to use with students are short, ideally one page or less to start, to match their tiny attention spans.Īlso, make sure that the topics of those passages are not only kid-friendly but truly engaging. If kids aren’t engaged, the battle is already lost and they will be unable or unwilling to learn. One of the most important things a teacher can do academically is to keep students engaged. Our job is to carefully go back into the text and find the proof we need to prove our case! 2. We talk about how this evidence gathering has a purpose…which is to identify the robbers and to prove our case.įinding text evidence then is like being a detective, a reading detective.
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First, we start off by talking about evidence in general and what that is.įor example, I ask students if there was a bank robbery, what kinds of evidence might we find? They come up with ideas like fingerprints, a witness’ description of what the robber was wearing, eyewitness accounts of what the robber looked like, a license plate of their vehicle and ideally… a bank video of the robbers. It’s always good though to do a quick review to refresh their memories. An Introduction or Reviewīy the fourth or fifth grades, most students will have been introduced to text evidence.
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Teaching text evidence can be challenging…but it can also be a lot of fun! Want to find out how to lead your students step by step through the process of finding and citing text evidence? Find out what works in my classroom here: 1.
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