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Finding Text Evidence Worksheet

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Grades
5
Standards
RL.5.1
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About the Citing Evidence from the Text Worksheet

Citing Evidence from the Text is a comprehensive reading comprehension activity centered around a story about Ellie's excitement for the first warm Saturday of the year. This interactive and printable worksheet, that aligns with the Common Core State Standards, Citing Evidence from the Text helps students develop critical reading skills by identifying and analyzing textual evidence to support their answers.

The worksheet presents a relatable narrative about morning routines and responsibilities, followed by four carefully crafted multiple-choice questions. Each question challenges students to examine different aspects of reading comprehension, including identifying explicit details, understanding character emotions, making inferences, and distinguishing between directly stated and implied information in the text.

What will your child learn through this worksheet?

  • How to locate and use specific evidence from text to support answers
  • Understanding character feelings and motivations through context clues
  • Distinguishing between explicit and implicit information
  • Developing close reading and analytical thinking skills

Learning Outcomes

Cognitive

  • This interactive worksheet enables students to identify explicit versus implicit information in the text
  • Through this worksheet, students learn to analyze character emotions and actions using textual evidence

Psychomotor

  • Students develop text scanning and highlighting skills through this interactive worksheet
  • This worksheet helps students practice organized reading and answer selection techniques

Affective

  • This interactive worksheet helps students develop confidence in their evidence-based reasoning
  • Through this worksheet, students learn to appreciate the importance of supporting their interpretations with text evidence

Reinforce

  • This worksheet encourages collaborative discussion about text interpretation and evidence
  • Through this interactive exercise, students learn to respectfully compare and contrast different interpretations of the same text

Tags

text evidence, reading comprehension, explicit details, implicit information, character analysis, inference skills, multiple choice questions, narrative analysis, close reading, critical thinking, elementary education, literacy development, evidence-based reasoning, reading strategies, textual analysis

Common Core Standards Covered

RL.5.1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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Grade Levels:

Grade 5

Subjects:

ela

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