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Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.) | Grade Level: 4
Lesson Length: 15 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags: Citing evidence from a text
Lesson Description: ELAGSE4RI1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

  • Other ELAGSE4RI1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Video : Looking back at the text for evidence | Reading | Khan Academy
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Assignment : Natural Disaster: "Wildfires: How they form, and why they're so dangerous."

Read the through the questions with your group members so that it will give you an idea of what you are focusing on in this task. Next, read passage that will be given to you in class. After reading it once, reread the passage again. Work with your group members and context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words. Also, look up any unknown words on: wordsmyth.com You may read the passage as many times as need to read. Mak sure that you annotate any key details that will help you answer the questions after you have finished reading the passage. 

Quiz : Finding Evidence and Citing Evidence from a text
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1
When citing evidence from a text, you do not have to use quotation marks. 
Question #2
This detail is quoted correctly fron the text: In paragraph 12 the author says: " Wildfire smoke kills 339,000 people each year."
Question #3
Student A's written response uses text evidence to support her claim: Wildfires are bad because they bu up everything. They cause people to die. People have to go to the hospital because of wildfires.  
Question #4

What is text evidence? 

Question #5

 Which paragraphs would you find details about how wildfires can be beneficial to the environment? 

Question #6

 What conditions must be present for a wildfire to start?

Question #7

In the video "Looking back at the text for evidence ," how did the presenter begin explaining how to use evidence from a text? 

Question #8

According to the video "Looking back at the text for evidence," Evidence...

Question #9

Which paragraph explains inversion? 

Question #10

Pragrapraph ___ says that "Wildfire smoke kills 339,000 people each year."

Resources : Using Text Evidence
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Resources : Text Evidence Mini Lesson with Vocabulary and Examples
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Resources : Text Evidence
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