As students move into upper elementary grades, they start working on text-based writing (or text-dependent analysis). Students transition from writing fun stories in the lower elementary grades to composing informational writing pieces with text evidence in the upper elementary grades. If you teach 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade, then you know that guiding our students…
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Teaching Students How to Cite Text Evidence
Teaching students how to cite text evidence can be challenging. In the upper elementary grades, students might already have an understanding of how to find text evidence. But now they’re faced with the challenge of answering text-based prompts and including evidence within their responses. When teaching fourth grade, I noticed many of my students really…