Strengthen your students’ text evidence skills with this engaging, no-prep digital resource featuring four complete lessons designed for use with Google Slides™. These interactive lessons combine explicit instruction with hands-on practice, helping students locate, highlight, and explain text evidence using both fiction and nonfiction passages.

Perfect for grades 3–5, these lessons gradually build in complexity and are ideal for whole group instruction, small group work, or independent, self-paced learning.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

✅ 4 full text evidence reading lessons
✅ Instructional and practice slides in each lesson
✅ Fiction & nonfiction passages
✅ Sentence starters for explicit and implicit evidence
✅ Highlighting and written response tasks
✅ Answer keys for all lessons
✅ Google Slides™ format—no prep, no printing!

LESSON BREAKDOWN:

Lesson 1: Introduction to Highlighting Text Evidence (8 slides)

• Students learn to “think like a detective” and highlight evidence directly from the text
  
• Practice includes:
• Drag-and-drop flashlight activity
  
• Highlighting evidence in 2 short passages
  
• Typing evidence-based responses in text boxes
  

Lesson 2: Using Sentence Starters for Explicit Questions (7 slides)

• Introduces 4 explicit text evidence sentence starters, such as:
• According to the text...
  
• In the ___ paragraph...
  
• Students use these starters to answer multiple questions based on fiction and nonfiction texts
  

Lesson 3: Using Sentence Starters for Implicit Questions (9 slides)

• Teaches how to infer answers when evidence is implied, not directly stated
  
• Introduces 4 sentence starters for inference, such as:
• When the text said ____, I inferred...
  
• After reading the passage, I concluded that...
  
• Students apply these to 2 new reading passages
  

Lesson 4: Putting It All Together | Test Prep Practice (9 slides)

• Reinforces “Right-There” vs. “Author-and-Me” question types
  
• Includes:
• Sentence starter review
  
• Multiple-choice and short answer questions
  
• 1 fiction and 1 nonfiction passage
  

PERFECT FOR:

• Teaching text-based responses
• Practicing explicit vs. implicit comprehension
• Test prep for standardized reading assessments
• Digital learning, Google Classroom™, and hybrid instruction
  

Build reading confidence with structured lessons that gradually move from basic skills to test-ready mastery—all in an interactive, digital format!

**IMPORTANT NOTE!**

This digital lesson resource is an expanded version of my printable text evidence trifolds. The practice activities in my printable trifolds are the same as the practice activities in these digital lessons. The main difference between the two versions is that this digital version offers complete lessons with additional instructional slides that are not included in the printable trifolds. I really want to stress the overlap to teachers who have previously purchased my text evidence trifolds so that they are aware of this overlap before they purchase this expanded, alternate version.

Here's what teachers like you have to say about this digital resource:

⭐️ Developing Designs said, "This resource was very helpful to show students at the beginning of the year to teach finding text evidence and how to correctly respond in writing to the evidence."

⭐️ Catherine R. said, "Used these lessons with my 6th grade resource. They loved it and were very engaged."

⭐️ Samantha W. said, "Students loved this resource! It kept them engaged in the lesson!"

⭐️ Angela P. said, "I liked the readability of this lesson for my struggling students. They were able to remain engaged throughout the lesson!"

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