Clearly Teach Students How to Provide Evidence and Support

Help your students learn to support ideas and claims with specific instruction teaching Evidence and Support.
This product is formatted to be used in your Reading Interactive Notebooks, but can be adapted to stand-alone Lapbooks or reference booklets.

Includes printable pages with blocks to cut and glue and fill in
Flexible and adaptable to many grade levels
Options for teachers and/or students to write their own examples

Includes
• Categories of support and evidence
• Definitions of support and evidence
• Examples of support and evidence
• Samples of literary and informational text
• Photos of sample completed pages

Directly Supports the Following Common Core State Standards

Key Ideas and Details 1:
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from text
Key Ideas and Details 2:
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development, summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Key Ideas and Details 3:
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Craft and Structure 4:
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
Craft and Structure 5:
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text relate to each other and the whole.
Craft and Structure 6:
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 8:
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 9:
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.