Use Evidence in Informational Text

Quote or select accurate evidence for explicit information and inferences in nonfiction.

How the lesson starts: Use Evidence in Informational Text

Detective Nilo's rule
Meet Detective Nilo, a raccoon who reads nonfiction like a crime scene. Nilo has one famous rule. Every answer needs proof, and proof means a sentence you can point to.
Nilo's search plan
Here is Nilo's plan. Read the question and grab its key words. Scan the text for those words, or words that mean the same. Read the whole sentence around them. If it answers the question, tap it!
Let's solve a case
Question: why do bees visit flowers? Key word: flowers. Nilo scans and finds it in the third sentence. Bees visit flowers to collect sweet nectar. Does it answer why? Yes! Watch out: a sentence with the key word might not answer the question, so read it all.