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Dr. Roz Linder: Author of the Common Core Guidebook


"Textual evidence is support lifted directly from text to
support inferences, claims, and assertions. Textual
evidence is a student supporting how they know
something. There is a lot of buzz about text dependent
questions and requiring students to refer to the text, but
isn’t that what good readers do already? Textual evidence
does not want to keep the text a secret when students
discuss or answer questions about their reading. Textual
evidence demands that readers engage with the text and
share what specific aspects of the text influences their
thinking. Instead of asking what the central idea is,
teachers may want to rely on the addition of four words:
How do you know? How do you know what the central idea
of the text is? What proof do you have? This is where
textual evidence pushes students to."
—Dr. Roz Linder

Dr. Roz Linder is the author of the Common Core Guidebook.  Check out her website at: www.rozlinder.com

And this is the site for the Common Core Guidebook:
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You can also follow her on twitter.

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