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Prove it! Levels 6-8 : using textual evidence / Melissa Cheesman Smith, Teri Schilling ; foreword by Alan Sitomer.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smith, Melissa Cheesman, author.
Schilling, Teri, author.
Contributor:
Sitomer, Alan, writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Reading comprehension.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Huntington Beach, California : Shell Education, [2018]
Summary:
Equip grades 6-8 students with the expertise needed to master the skill of citing textual evidence through 10 lessons that include MLA formatting, using credible sources, avoiding plagiarism, paraphrasing, direct quotations, and creating a bibliography.
Contents:
Cover
Credits
Page 3 - Table of Contents
Page 4 - From the Authors
Page 5 - Foreword
Page 7 - Using Textual Evidence and Citations
Page 10 - How to Use this Book
Page 11 - Standards Correlations
Page 16 - Lesson 1: Introduction to Textual Evidence
Page 21 - Lesson 2: Citing with Direct Quotations
Page 24 - Lesson 3: Citing with Block Quotations
Page 27 - Lesson 4: Citing with Paraphrasing
Page 30 - Lesson 5: Citing with Poetry
Page 33 - Practice 1: Author's Purpose
Page 37 - Practice 2: Text Structure
Page 41 - Practice 3: Main Idea
Page 45 - Practice 4: Identifying Literary Devices
Page 49 - Practice 5: Compare and Contrast
Page 53 - Practice 6: Synthesizing and Summarizing
Page 57 - Practice 7: Making Inferences.
Page 61 - Practice 8: Identifying Key Details
Page 65 - Practice 9: Asking Questions
Page 69 - Practice 10: Compare and Contrast
Page 75 - Lesson 6: Using Credible andReliable Sources
Page 78 - Lesson 7: Supporting a Claim
Page 81 - Lesson 8: Organizing Evidence
Page 84 - Lesson 9: Writing an Analysis
Page 87 - Lesson 10: Creating a Bibliography
Page 90 - Writing Prompt 1: Description Text Structure
Page 93 - Writing Prompt 2: Compare-and-Contrast Text Structure
Page 96 - Writing Prompt 3: Cause-and-Effect Text Structure
Page 99 - Writing Prompt 4: Cause-and-Effect Text Structure
Page 102 - Writing Prompt 5: Sequence Text Structure
Page 105 - Writing Prompt 6: Description Text Structure
Page 108 - Writing Prompt 7: Description Text Structure.
Page 111 - Writing Prompt 8: Classification Text Structure
Page 114 - Writing Prompt 9: Problem-and-Solution Text Structure
Page 117 - Writing Prompt 10: Compare-and-Contrast Text Structure
Page 122 - Appendix A: Answer Key
Page 127 - Appendix B: Additional Resources.
Page 136 - Appendix C: Contents of the Digital Resources
Page 136 - Appendix D: References Cited
Thank You Page.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-4258-3537-6
OCLC:
1045185086

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