1. Evidence

2. Evidence Pre-Test
Directions: Write 3 evidences to develop the following topic sentence. Support each evidence with an explanation.
Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph explaining three ways that STOMP behavior affects our school.
Topic Sentence: STOMP behavior affects our school in three ways.
Evidence 1 –
Evidence 2 –
Evidence 3 –

3. Are purposefully organized
Evidence
Evidence –
Facts / Quotes
Develop the topic
Are purposefully organized

4. Ahead and State Your TopicGO
Ahead and State Your Topic
SLOW DOWN
And Give Your Evidence

5. Evidence
Evidence –
What the Text Says

6. What makes you think I ate the last cookie?
Evidence
Topic – Who ate the cookie?
Evidence 1 – The cookie is gone.
Evidence 2 – The little girl has cookie crumbs on her face.
Cinderella’s evidence that she was the missing princes = She had the glass slipper.
Support = It fit!

7. Evidence Select evidence that supports your topic.
Put your evidence in a logical order.

8. Whole Group Practice: Select your evidence.
Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph about the key characteristics of an ecosystem.
Topic Sentence: The desert ecosystem has many characteristics.
Deserts are fantastic ecosystems.
No – This is an opinion, not a fact, example, or quote.
Deserts get very little rain.
Yes – This is a fact that about one characteristic of the desert ecosystem.
Deserts have both very hot and very cold temperatures.
Snakes live in deserts.
No – This is a fact, but it is not a characteristic of an ecosystem.
Review finding prompt key words.
Review writing topic sentence.
Decide whether each evidence supports the topic sentence.

9. Whole Group Practice: Put your evidence in a logical order.
Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph about the key characteristics of an ecosystem.
Topic Sentence: The desert ecosystem has many characteristics.
Deserts get very little rain.
1 – This fact is the most important characteristic about deserts.
Deserts have both very hot and very cold temperatures.
2 – This fact is caused not as well known. It’s also caused by the first fact.
Label the order.
Explain your answer.

10. Small Group Practice: Select your evidence.
Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph about how producers survive in a specific ecosystem.
Topic Sentence: The producers in a desert ecosystem have to live without much water.
A woodpecker can live in a saguaro.
No – This fact is not about the producer.
Deserts are hard places for producers to live.
No – This fact focuses on the desert, not a producer.
Desert cactus store water in their spines.
Yes – This fact is about how a producer survives in the desert.
Desert shrubs have waxy leaves that hold in water.
Review finding prompt key words.
Review writing topic sentence.
Decide whether each evidence supports the topic sentence.

11. Small Group Practice: Put your evidence in a logical order.
Prompt: Write a TEST paragraph about how producers survive in a specific ecosystem.
Topic Sentence: The producers in a desert ecosystem have to live without much water.
Desert cactus store water in their spines.
1 – This plant is the most well known producer in a desert.
Desert shrubs have waxy leaves that hold in water.
2 – This plant is not as well known.
Review finding prompt key words.
Review writing topic sentence.
Decide whether each evidence supports the topic sentence.

12. Evidence pre-test
ADVANCED SUPPORT STOMP behavior affects our school in three ways. First, STOMP behavior helps people feel safe. STOMP behavior also keeps our school clean. Finally, STOMP behavior makes people enjoy being here.
Safety is first because it is the most important.
Being safe and clean makes our school enjoyable.

13. Evidence Advanced Proficient Partially Proficient Unsatisfactory
Description
3+ evidences develop the topic in a purposeful order
3+ evidences develop the topic.
1-2 evidences develop the topic.
Evidence does not develop the topic.
Example
STOMP behavior helps people feel safe.
STOMP behavior keeps our school clean.
STOMP behavior makes people enjoy being here.
STOMP behavior means showing respect.