Citing textual evidence is a critical skill for kids to master as they progress through their educational journey. Not only does it help them internalize and recognize the importance of evidence-based reasoning, but it also provides them with an effective strategy for reading comprehension.
Thankfully, there are plenty of fun activities that can be used to help kids improve their ability to cite textual evidence. Here are 20 of them:
1. Make A Movie Trailer: Have your students create a movie trailer for a book they’ve read by using quotes from it.
2. Quote Charades: Have students act out passages from a text and have the other students guess what the passage is.
3. Scavenger Hunt: Assign each student a specific quote to find in the text and have them race to be the first to find it.
4. Quote A Card: Provide students with index cards, each with a different quote. Have them use the quotes to create a story.
5. Quote Bingo: Create Bingo cards with quotes from the text. Have students match the quotes to the Bingo squares.
6. Quote Match: Give students quotes from the text and have them find the sections they come from.
7. Quote Puzzles: Cut up quotes from the text and have students piece them back together.
8. Quote Tic-Tac-Toe: Create a tic-tac-toe board using quotes from the text. Students must use the quote to answer a question correctly in order to mark their spot on the board.
9. Quote Detective: Give students a quote and have them find its source in the text.
10. Quote Concentration: Split the class into two teams and create a matching game using quotes from the text.
11. Quote Jeopardy: Create a game of Jeopardy using quotes from the text.
12. Quote Charades: Have students act out quotes from the text and have the other students guess what the quote is.
13. Quote Word Search: Create a word search using quotes from the text.
14. Quote Quiz: Create a quiz using quotes from the text.
15. Quote Anagrams: Create anagrams using quotes from the text.
16. Quote Crossword: Create a crossword using quotes from the text.
17. Quote Memory: Create a memory game using quotes from the text.
18. Quote Board Game: Create a board game using quotes from the text.
19. Quote Madness: Put quotes from the text on index cards and have students race to be the first to find the correct answer.
20. Quote Scavenger Hunt: Assign students a list of quotes from the text and have them race to find them all.
With these 20 activities, kids can have fun while also strengthening their ability to cite textual evidence.
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