WHAT WILL YOU FIND IN THIS STEP-BY-STEP TEXT EVIDENCE UNIT?

★ SCRIPTED LESSON PLANS: Take the guesswork out of what to say when teaching text evidence. These plans include what to say, how to teach each lesson, and how long to spend on each lesson.

★ ANCHOR CHARTS: Text Evidence Anchor Charts and examples for each mini-lesson below.

1. What is TEXT EVIDENCE?

2. How to Provide TEXT EVIDENCE USING RACE (RESTATE, ANSWER, CITE, EXPLAIN) OR ACE (ANSWER, CITE, EXPLAIN)

3. How to RESTATE a question

4. How to ANSWER questions

5. Prior Knowledge

6. Inferences

7. How to CITE EVIDENCE

8. How to EXPLAIN

9. Paraphrasing using RAP

10. Quoting

★ MINI-LESSON PRACTICE PAGES :

✓ Restate the Question

✓ Answer with Prior Knowledge and Inference

✓ Citing Evidence

✓ Explain

✓ Paraphrase

✓ Quoting

✓ RACE or ACE paragraph practice

★ 5 PASSAGES WITH 3 LEVELS OF DIFFERENTIATION AND OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS: The LEXILE LEVELS for each of the high-interest informative reading passages ARE 500, 700, & 950 (Gr. 4-6). The first passage has questions in RACE or ACE charts.

★ INTERACTIVE NOTES (DIFFERENTIATED): There are notes for every anchor chart. The digital version has fill-in-the-box notes, and the printable version has four choices.

1. Notes written out.

2. Sentence frames (fill-in-the-blank).

3. Write all notes.

4. Mini-anchor charts (great for absent students and students who have trouble cutting and taking notes.

★ TASK CARDS: 24 task cards with multiple-choice and open-ended questions. The printable version is perfect for centers and posting around the room (directions and template included). The digital version comes in GOOGLE SLIDES.

★ HANDS-ON ACTIVITY: Directions are included.

★ BOOK RESPONSE: This can be used with any book.

★ GRAPHIC ORGANIZER: This ACE or RACE chart can be used with any book or passage. You just add the questions!

★ TRACKING FORM: Track your students’ progress.

★ SUGGESTED MENTOR TEXT LIST

★ ASSESSMENT: Use the last passage for an assessment.

★ PDF, POWERPOINT, AND GOOGLE. Please Note: All Google Links and answer keys are in the Teacher Printable PDF.

 

Since some teachers or districts use the acronym RACE and others use ACE, I included separate files with the same instruction but different acronyms for this foundation skill.

If you are looking for RACES, there are supplement materials that can be used along with RACE: RACES anchor chart, interactive page for “S” and RACES, and RACES charts to use with the passages. Please Note: This is supplemental, so use the RACE file along with the supplemental materials. It is PDF only.

COMMON CORE STANDARDS: RL4.1, RL5.1, R.6.1, RI 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

CCSS RI.4.1

Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

CCSS RI.5.1

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

CCSS RI.6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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