CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.9
The Standard
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find relevant details and quotations in literary and informational texts. They use that evidence in their writing and explain how it supports their ideas.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students choose quotations or details that clearly support their point. They introduce the evidence, identify its source, and explain how it supports an analysis, reflection, or research claim.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may drop in a quotation without explaining how it supports the claim. They may choose an interesting detail that is unrelated, copy too much text, or leave out source information.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short passage and ask: “Write one claim about the text, include the strongest supporting detail, and explain the connection.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs claim cards and evidence strips from a story, then have them sort each strip under the claim it best supports.
Ask, “Which detail best proves the character changed, and why is it stronger than another detail?” then have students write three sentences.
Play Evidence Match: teams pair claims with quotations, then earn a point only when they explain the connection.
Have students read two school lunch reviews and write a recommendation supported by one fact from each review.
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