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Grade 6 ELA · reading evidence

Choose Evidence That Answers the Question

Current teacher guidance: 2 November 2026. Student tasks retain their stated core editions. Use the current stage choices and matching guide below.

Changes in the current files · 2 November 2026
  • The teacher guide includes annotated fictional sound, partial and error responses, with concrete teaching actions and evidence to seek next.

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Choose a separate check or the two-page model and guided practice. The matching guide explains which response to teach.

Current teacher guidance: 2 November 2026. Student tasks retain their stated core edition; use the matching current guide linked here. Earlier files are kept separately in the archive.

Audience / fit
Grade 6 ELA
Teaching or planning target
Check a response, teach one of two evidence moves, then use fresh follow-up scenes.
Essential prerequisites
Students have been taught to connect an accurate passage detail to a supplied claim. Use the linked first-teaching lesson when that move needs instruction.
Preparation
About 3–5 minutes, estimated
Use time
Check A and Recheck B: about 4–6 minutes each; focused reteach: about 8–12 minutes, estimated
Materials
Selected student pages, paper and pencil or an established response method, and the separate teacher guide.
What to print
Print the chosen activity. Follow the source or reveal instructions beside it.

Evidence to notice: Look for a relevant detail and an explicit explanation of how it supports the supplied claim. Check access, wording and response conditions before choosing a teaching route.

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Student page 1: Initial response
Actual student PDF page 1 of 1: Initial response. This page belongs to the named task; a teaching stage may intentionally show a model. Keep the matching teacher answers and reserved tasks separate.

Start with the selected task

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Initial task, teaching practice and separate checks

Starting tasks

Teaching and guided practice

Follow-up checks

Later tasks — reserve for another occasion

Teacher files — separately

Archived page guidance and source files · Write a local teaching plan

Choose a teaching move from the response

Current print and editable package

Library package prepared 2 November 2026. Revised guides are marked with that date; other files retain their stated editions. Keep this package with the teacher. Read START-HERE, choose one stage, and retain teacher keys and checks for later use in their separate folders. Online browser versions are linked from the preparation pages.

Choose Evidence That Answers the Question · current ZIP · 0.3 MB

Choose from the response

Choose the next teaching move

Describe what the learner said, wrote or showed. Check access, wording, prerequisites and calculation before interpreting it. A single response is not a diagnosis. Record support and prior exposure; a helped or rehearsed task is practice.

Give Check A independently, choose one teaching route, then use the model and guided text. Reserve unseen Recheck B for after teaching and Later Check C for another learning opportunity.

Start with the supplied materials

Model and guided practice · two-page student selection. This file contains the teaching example and guided practice only.

Observe, clarify and select one response

A true detail does not show the action or choice in the claim.

Teaching move: Contrast the two photographs in The Newspaper, then compare the sticker with the contact action in The Lost Notebook. Ask what the detail must help show.

Read the matching teacher directions; keep answers with the teacher.

A relevant detail is selected, but its connection to the claim is missing.

Teaching move: Keep the relevant detail. Model the connection in The Newspaper, then let the learner explain the connection in The Lost Notebook.

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Look again after teaching

After selected response teaching and another learning opportunity, use the unused follow-up task.

Return on a later occasion

Reserve these tasks until their intended use. They have different demands; do not treat them as equivalent tests or proof of broad mastery.

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Archive: Additional formats, earlier editions and teaching guidance

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Audience / fit
Grade 6 ELA
Teaching or planning target
Check a response, teach one of two evidence moves, then use fresh follow-up scenes.
Essential prerequisites
Students have been taught to connect an accurate passage detail to a supplied claim. Use the linked first-teaching lesson when that move needs instruction.
Preparation
About 3–5 minutes, estimated
Use time
Check A and Recheck B: about 4–6 minutes each; focused reteach: about 8–12 minutes, estimated
Materials
Selected student pages, paper and pencil or an established response method, and the separate teacher guide.
What to print
Use the primary PDF choice below and its matching adult guide. Print only the phase/task being used; keep complete keys and later checks with the teacher.

Start teaching

Starting evidence check A · PDF (1 pages)

Read the teacher guide and answers · PDF (3 pages)

Print only the student pages you plan to use. Keep teacher answers and later checks with the teacher until their intended use.

Editable Word, browser copies and other files

Print and adapt for your own planning and classroom use; printed copies may be shared within your classroom or school team, provided the source is not sold. Keep attribution and resource-specific notices. For redistribution and third-party materials, read the Terms of Use. Recommend this resource using its page link.

Grade 6 Reading: Check, Reteach & Recheck · All free resources

Use this pack after teaching students to connect a passage detail to a supplied claim. Give a short first check, teach the observed next step, and use a new scene to see the reasoning again.

Who it is for
Grade 6 ELA
Text type
Five original fictional scenes
Preparation
About 3–5 minutes, estimated
Activity time
Check A and Recheck B: about 4–6 minutes each; focused reteach: about 8–12 minutes, estimated
Included
Five student stages, two teaching routes, answer guidance, alternatives, separate printable checks, shared guide and local planning record

Teacher quick start

  1. Print Check A. Confirm the learner can access the scene and prompt.
  2. Compare the response with the guide. Describe the detail and explanation actually present.
  3. If the detail is true but misses the claim, teach route A. If the detail fits but the explanation is absent, teach route B. Clarify a blank or uninterpretable response first.
  4. Use the Newspaper model and Lost Notebook guided practice. Then give the unseen Recheck B.
  5. Use Later Check C after another learning opportunity. Compare visible reasoning and conditions, not a mastery percentage.

Choose the next teaching move

True detail, weak match to the claim
Route A: compare the smiling photograph with the repair photograph, then compare the comet sticker with Inez's return action.
Relevant detail, missing connection
Route B: keep the detail and ask how it shows the claimed action or choice; then use the notebook scene for a new explanation.
Broad claim beyond the scene
Return to the supplied claim and identify what the scene leaves unknown.
Blank or unclear response
Check access, task understanding, time, and response conditions before selecting a content reteach.
Additional files · teacher preparation

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Starting guide preview for Choose Evidence That Answers the Question

Student pages

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    Check A · student page — PDF (27 KB)
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    Check A · editable student page — DOCX (37 KB)
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    Complete five-page student packet — PDF (48 KB)
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    Complete editable student packet — DOCX (38 KB)
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    Recheck B · student page — PDF (27 KB)
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    Recheck B · editable student page — DOCX (37 KB)
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    Later Check C · student page — PDF (26 KB)
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    Later Check C · editable student page — DOCX (37 KB)
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Read the complete student packet in HTML. The complete packet is five pages; Check A, Recheck B, and Later Check C are also separate one-page files.

Archive: Formats and all files

Earlier guidance and source files are retained as historical records. For classroom teaching and printing, use the current stage files and matching guides above. Older guidance, timing and layouts are superseded; some retained browser/Word files have limited writing space or sparse extra pages. Keep historical student files with their historical keys and do not mix editions.

Teacher files

Read the teacher guide and answer key in HTML. Teacher answers are separate from student files.

Starting guide preview for Choose Evidence That Answers the Question

Shared category tools

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    Start Here guide — PDF (31 KB)
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    Editable Start Here guide — DOCX (37 KB)
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    Optional local planning record — PDF (27 KB)
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    Editable local planning record — DOCX (37 KB)

Choose a next move

Choose a route that fits the response and your teaching goal. These are links to materials already supplied, not a prescribed sequence or a placement decision.

Save follow-up passages until students are ready to try them on their own. Once a passage has been shown, modeled or practiced, use it for practice. Keep answer keys with the teacher and use each resource’s own learning target and criteria.

About the materials

The teaching examples are fictional. You may print and adapt these materials for classroom use; retain attribution and identify local changes. Keep student notes locally under your school’s procedures.

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When the question needs first teaching

Read the Question and Support Your Answer — Use the short-fiction bridge to teach question understanding and an own answer before working with a supplied claim.

Editable Word files

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Reading classroom tools Word files (ZIP). Choose the editable files that match the task you will use. Use the individual downloads above for PDFs, HTML and the complete student packet. Keep the bundles with the teacher and share only selected student tasks.

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