FInding Evidence in Text

     This year I have really been focusing on helping my kids discover how to go back into the text to help find information.  I can't tell you how many times I have heard "Well I THINK the answer is..." Now there is finally a tool to make sure they go back into the text to prove it.  Everywhere on the blogs I visit and on TPT I kept seeing close reading.  How is it that the is a new term to me??  After reading much more about it, made me realize that I do most of the components already...shew!  Close reading is a super strategy to get the kids to rediscover the text in a whole new way. 
     I also created a graphic organizer to go along with close reading.  I told the kids they were kind of like lawyers who had to prove a case before me (the judge!) could rule that the answer was correct or not.  They ATE IT UP!!!  What is so great about this is that you as the teacher get to choose only one question the kids should focus on.  I used this with many different kinds of texts from fiction to nonfiction and it works great with them all.  This graphic organizer is fantastic at getting the kids to go back and find proof to back up their thinking. I was super impressed, even the first time.  I can't wait to watch them grow as lawyers...I mean independent readers:) This graphic organizer is a also free download from my TPT store. Click on the click here button below to be directed to my site, download, and be prepared to be amazed!
                                                                                                                                 Enjoy,
                                                                                                                                 Emily

 

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