Transcript Citing Textual Evidence PD

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Citing Textual Evidence
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Literacy Instructional Shifts
1. Regular practice with complex text and its
academic language
2. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in
evidence from text, both literary and
informational
3. Building knowledge through content-rich
nonfiction
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+ Supporting Student Literacy Development
Text
Dependent
Questions
Close
Reading
Citing
Textual
Evidence
Students who are college and
career ready
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Why Students Need to Cite Textual
Evidence
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Teaches students to be “Detectives”
 Critically investigating a text for evidence
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Teaches students to Act on evidence
 Deeper analysis of facts, figures, claims, etc.
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Students will be expected to Perform this task on assessments.
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TCAP Writing Assessment, PARCC Assessment, etc
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+ Planning for Citing Textual Evidence:
What do I need?
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Text Dependent Questions/ Questions that reference
“citing the text”
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The Desired Student Response
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Including a process in which students are taught in a more formal
way to respond to your TDQ’s.
A Plan to teach students how to reference the text and
annotate the relevant information for the TDQ before they
write their response.
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Steps to Cite Textual Evidence
3. Explain the
Evidence:
2. Cite the textual
evidence that led you
to that idea:
1. State your
idea/Rephrase the
question:
•State the idea you had about
the text (if you are responding
to a specific question, be sure
your idea rephrases the
question).
•Explain how the quote(s) or
paraphrase(s) you pointed out
support your idea.
•Give supporting evidence
from the text (by
paraphrasing, summarizing,
or directly quoting from the
text).If you are directly
quoting from a text, you must
use quotation marks.
All teachers can use this format to teach students how to respond to the text.
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+ Sentence Stems
Students may know how to cite evidence within a text, but need
"stems" to help structure that response.
Text Citation Stems
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In the first paragraph, the author
says...
Evidence Explanation Stems
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This shows...
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This demonstrates...
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This illustrates...
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This proves...
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This is because…
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This reveals…
The text states...
In the text...
According to the passage...
One example from the text...
The author states...
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+ Stem Champions: Brainstorm Challenge
Let’s beef up our list! With a partner, you will have 4 minutes to create
as many NEW stems that you can think of on your handout for both
categories.
Text Citation Stems
Evidence Explanation Stems
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Model Example
Cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds every year in the
United States alone, a new report concludes. That’s nearly a billion
more birds — at least — than estimated by some previous studies,
Peter Marra told Science News. This research scientist, who works
at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington,
D.C., led the new study. Any long-term solution will be
controversial. Some people propose catching wild cats and
neutering them, which means performing minor surgery to make
them unable to reproduce. That won’t make them kill fewer
animals. But it will slow the increase in number of these naturalborn killers. Other people have proposed catching and killing
feral cats
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TDQ: Citing the text, what was the author’s purpose in
writing this text?
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+ Question: Citing the text, what was the
author’s purpose in writing this text?
Step 1: State your
idea/Rephrase the
Question
Step2: Cite the textual
evidence that led you to
that idea:
Step 3. Explain the
Evidence
The author’s purpose was to make
people aware that cats killing birds has
become a problem and that any
solution to the problem will be
controversial.
In the first paragraph, the author
points out that, “Cats kill between
1.4 billion and 3.7 billion every
year.”
The author’s use of that statistic
really catches a reader’s eye
because they are such big numbers.
This shows just how big the problem
is.
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Model Answer
The author’s purpose was to make people
aware that cats killing birds has become a
problem and that any solution to the problem
will be controversial. In the first paragraph,
the author points out that, “Cats kill between
1.4 billion and 3.7 billion every year.” The
author’s use of that statistic really catches a
reader’s eye because they are such big
numbers. This shows just how big the problem
is. Then, in the second paragraph, the author
says that there are two controversial ways to
solve the problem, by either catching wild cats
and performing surgery on them so they can’t
reproduce or catching and killing them. The
author was demonstrating that the possible
solutions are controversial because most
people probably would not like the idea of
cats being caught in order to either operate on
them or kill them.
Here, the writer answers the question with an
idea about the text.
Here, the writer includes a direct quote from
the text as evidence.
Here, the writer comments on how the quoted
text that was cited as evidence helped form
the idea that was stated to answer the
question.
Here, the writer paraphrases from the text to
give a second piece of evidence.
Here, the writer comments on how the
paraphrased text helped form the idea that
was stated to answer the question
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+ As a Team: Strong and Slimy
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Individually read the article Strong and Slimy.
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As you read, determine a method for annotating the text for the
following items:
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Vocabulary
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Key ideas and details
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Craft and Structure
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As a Team:
QUESTION: How does the author try to help readers
understand the term “tensile strength”? Cite the text in
your response.
Working in Groups of 3-4, create a sample response to this
question on chart paper. Follow the steps below:
 State your idea/Restate the Question
 Cite the textual evidence that led you to that idea
 Explain the Evidence
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Your Turn
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Using the article and material you found on Friday for
your Close Read and TDQs complete the following:
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Review and revise your TDQs to include a phrase that
makes it clear that students will “cite the text.”
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Create a desired student response for each that
adheres to the steps for citing textual evidence.
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You should have a well crafted response for 3-5
questions.
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