2. Using text evidence to support your claims. TEXT DETECTIVES

3. READING IS DETECTIVE WORK Good readers use specific evidence to support claims made about texts.

4. PROVE IT! Evidence is proof from the text to support your claim. Text evidence supports what you say. Justify your written responses by using evidence to prove your claim.

5. CITING TEXT EVIDENCE-RULES You need to specifically cite your evidence using some rules. LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION You need to say the exact paragraph or page number you found your evidence in/on. You should say who the author is. The More Evidence the Better Use more than one piece of evidence to support your claim. DOT YOUR i-s and CROSS YOUR Ts You should put quotation marks around the evidence you took from the text.

6. SENTENCE STARTERS Here are some sentence starters you can use to introduce your evidence: For example, For instance, According to the text, Based on the text, The author stated In paragraph (number), the author states, Because According to the author in paragraph (#),

7. PRACTICE PROVING STUFF! Listen carefully to the story Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion. http://www.storylineonline.net/harry-the-dirty-dog/

8. PRACTICE PROVING STUFF QUESTION: How does the reader know that Harry does not like taking baths? Use the RACE strategy and your sentence starter tips to respond. R restate A answer C cite E explain

9. EVIDENCE

10. WRITTEN RESPONSE-SAMPLE According to the text, we know that Harry does not like to take baths because the author states on pages 4 and 5 that Harry steals the brush and hides it. In addition, the text also states on page 6 that Harry runs away when he thinks he is about to get a bath.

11. TEXT DETECTIVES-REVIEW THE EVIDENCE TEXT DETECTIVES Successful Readers find and use evidence from the text to support their responses. Strong Writers support their claims with evidence from the text.