Text Evidence: A Bundle of Practice Passages, Lessons, and Activities

This text evidence bundle has everything you need to keep your students engaged as they learn how to cite evidence from a text. It includes 15 passages. The activities in this bundle make citing text evidence fun and easy! Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resources that can be used year after year! These activities can be used for test prep, review, or introduction of the skill. It includes a PowerPoint, craftivity, anchor chart activity, bookmarks, worksheets, and lesson plans!

What's included... To gain a better idea of everything included, please check out the individual previews for each resource:

35-slide PowerPoint

• Ideal for introducing this topic to students!
• Features sentence starters!
• Includes 7 practice passages (both fiction and nonfiction)
• You have my permission to convert this to Google Slides, if you wish.
• It comes with a matching companion handout (The companion handout includes both a printable version and a Google Slides version.)

Two Worksheets with Color-Coding Activity

• First, students read two passages. (1 fiction passage and 1 nonfiction passage)
• Then, they answer the multiple-choice comprehension questions that follow each passage.
• A fun "dot dude" stands beside each question. Students color the dot dude, and then use the same color to underline the text evidence that justifies their answer.
• You get to choose whether to use the printable craftivity version, the Easel Activity version, or the Google version.

Worksheet Packet

• Three fiction passages and two nonfiction passages
• Students read each passage and answer the 4-6 comprehension questions that follow. Most questions have a multiple-choice format.
• Students are required to write a sentence to justify each answer, citing text evidence.
• Includes a POSTER with 10 text evidence sentence starters
• Use some as an assessment, if you wish.
• You get to choose whether to use the printable version, the Google version, or the Easel Activity version.

Anchor Chart Activity, Sentence Starter Posters, and Bookmarks

5 days of LESSON PLANS

• These plans outline how and when I use each of the included resources! You don't have to follow the lesson plan format I provide, of course, but it might be helpful in providing a bit of direction for you.

Some of the sentence starters introduced in this packet include:

→ According to the text...

→ The author stated...

→ In the _ paragraph (sentence), the author said...

→ When the text said _, I inferred...

→ I think __ because...

Here's what teachers like you have to say about using these text evidence activities with their students:

⭐️ Carrie S. said, "I love all of Deb Hanson's resources! This one hit the mark on helping my students with text Evidence. I especially love the text evidence sentence starters!"

⭐️ Dominique C. said, "My students were engaged as we went through this PowerPoint and included activities. Now they are able to include the way we used text evidence from the lessons in their other reading activities. This is an amazing resource!"

⭐️ Samantha F. said, "This has been a joy to teach due to how easy it is to navigate. Everything is so self-explanatory that it makes teaching a breeze!"

⭐️ Michelle S. said, "I've used this with my 5th graders these past two weeks. It includes a lot of material and my students have enjoyed working along with the ppt. I love how it addresses both direct and indirect answers as it followed my inferring unit. I've used some of the material as my pre and post-assessments and was able to easily differentiate with what was included. Definitely a must-have product in this citing text evidence educational system we are in!"

⭐️ Magic in the Middle said, "I can't say ENOUGH about your products!!!! Amazing is too shallow of a word. My students and I just finished using the PowerPoint and the accompanying packet. I am so excited about the growth that I have seen in my students' abilities to write comprehensive responses including text evidence!!! EVERYONE should purchase this bundle!!"

Are you looking for a text evidence intervention resource, or text evidence activities designed to be used with a small group of students? You might want to check out my set of Citing Text Evidence Trifolds/Lessons!

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