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Evidence Detective

Whole group, Tier 1, on the SmartBoard. Answers may not be wrong, but our job is to find answers that are strong!
Purpose

Students practice choosing evidence with the CSI Habit: it Connects to the prompt, Supports the thesis (central idea), and lets us Infer more ideas.

How it works

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.

The levels

● Red Foundational, ■ Orange Emergent, ▼ Yellow Visible, ▲ Green Independent, ◆ Blue Reflective. All five pieces of evidence work; only one is truly and completely strong.

1. Choose your passage

Prompt and thesis (central idea)

Prompt

Thesis (central idea)

* All sample thesis statements contain lexical overlap and sentence structure in order to provide the most student support.