Students practice choosing evidence with the CSI Habit: it Connects to the prompt, Supports the thesis (central idea), and lets us Infer more ideas.
Choose a passage. Read the prompt and the thesis (central idea). The class picks one of five pieces of evidence and sees its thinking level and CSI score, then gets a second chance.
● Red Foundational, ■ Orange Emergent, ▼ Yellow Visible, ▲ Green Independent, ◆ Blue Reflective. All five pieces of evidence work; only one is truly and completely strong.
* All sample thesis statements contain lexical overlap and sentence structure in order to provide the most student support.
First choice