Digital Unit lecture lesson 1

1. Citing Textual Evidence
to Support Analysis of
a Text
Sara Montanez

2. At The End of
This Lesson, You
Will Be Able To…
 find two or more pieces of
textual evidence to support
analysis regarding a variety of
textual elements, both
inferential and explicit.

3. What do you see?
Tell me what you see. Here is a guideline of
questions to ask.
 What year is it?
 What subject is the teacher teaching?
Now, lets ask ourselves why we inferred
the answers we did.
What about this picture makes us think
that this picture could be from the early
1900s?
What about this picture makes us think
she is teaching a Language Arts Class?
Organize supporting details that help you
argue your point about why you inferred
the answer you did.

4. What is textual
evidence?
Information in the text that helps support your
answer.

5. Why is it
important that
we use textual
evidence to
support
analysis?
As we have learned in the last slide, we infer things all of the time,
but it is important to be able to pin point why we inferred the things
we did.
This will help you become better readers, writers and critical
thinkers.
Another good example of this concept is:
If your little sister told you that her teacher told her that she didn’t
have to do any homework and could watch television instead, would
you believe her? Probably not.
Now apply to this hypothetical scenario what you have learned
about the need for supporting evidence.
Well what if your little sister came home with a note stating the
above with the teacher’s signature and contact information?
Although odd, you would probably give it some further thought
and believe her after calling to confirm with the teacher.

6. Textual Evidence
 Being able to answer why/give evidence
gives our statements, inferences, and even
opinions, the support they need.
 This makes our points legitimate, at least
more than they would be without evidence.

7. We do NOT want
to…
 Although textual evidence is
important, we do not want our
argument/statement/opinion/inf
erence to get lost amongst
citations.
 Specific evidence is key.
 Ask yourself, “Does this directly
justify my claim?”
Do not get lost in the evidence, it
can get difficult to sort through!
WE WANT TO DO THIS

8. Please follow
along with the
audio

9. Question for
group
discussion
 Argue for or against the “modern” form of
school. Which school would you rather attend?
Support your answer with at least two pieces
of evidence from the story.
Use the graphic organizer on the next slide to organize your
thoughts/arguments as well as supporting textual evidence.