
Explaining Text Evidence
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English
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6th - 8th Grade
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Laura Harrison
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Explaining Text Evidence
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Open Ended
Who is working on this? List both partners' first names below.
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Open Ended
Why do you think that is sleep important?
(one sentence)
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Why is sleep important?
In the following slides, you will see text evidence from an article explaining why sleep is important.
Your job will be to add a sentence after each quotation which explains its importance in your own words. We've provided some sentence starters on the next slide.
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This is your opportunity to explain how the QUOTE proves your CLAIM.
Here are some ways you could start your sentence:
This shows...
This proves...
This is important because...
This helps the reader to understand...
For example, ...
What should I write to explain my text evidence?
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Open Ended
Explain this text evidence!
"During deep sleep, long, slow waves of electrical impulses move through the brain. These slow waves move all the important things you learned and did today from short-term memory into long-term memory. At the same time, you forget unimportant details like putting on your socks."
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Open Ended
Explain this text evidence!
"During REM sleep, the brain is making connections. It links new experiences to old memories. It also bundles together actions you’ve been practicing, such as the motions of riding a bike, into a new, single muscle memory: ride bike."
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Open Ended
Explain this text evidence!
"Dreams may help regulate emotions. At night, the brain can replay upsetting events in a safe dream space, with less intense emotions."
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Open Ended
Explain this text evidence!
"In dreams, the brain can try out solutions to problems that are bothering you. Finding even a weird dream solution can make you feel more in control the next day."
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Open Ended
What does all of this evidence prove? Write your answer in ONE complete sentence.
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Poll
All done! How did you do?
That was easy!
We needed a little bit of help, but then we did great!
We needed a lot of help with that!
Terrible.
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