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Reading: Find Evidence and Explain
Grades 1–8 · 12 worksheets
About this skill
Strong readers don’t just answer questions — they prove their answers. In these worksheets, students read a short passage, then answer questions by finding the exact words in the text that support what they say, and explaining how they know. Early grades work with short, simple stories; upper grades meet longer passages and questions that need more than one piece of evidence. The habit transfers everywhere: science, social studies, and any test that asks “how do you know?”
Teaching notes
- Start with “prove it”: read a question aloud, then hunt through the passage together and underline the sentence that answers it before anyone writes.
- The common slip is answering from memory or opinion. Require a finger on the line — if a student can’t point to it, it isn’t evidence yet.
- Extend it by having students write their own evidence question for a partner’s passage, or color-code claim and evidence in two colors.
Reading: Find Evidence and Explain worksheets
Grade 1Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 1
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Grade 2Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 2: Mia's Block Bridge
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Grade 2Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 2: The Kitten at the Fence
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Grade 3Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 3: Finn's Plant Pot
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Grade 3Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 3: Omar's Poem Reading
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Grade 4Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 4
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Grade 6Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 6: The Blurred Sketchbook
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Grade 6Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 6: The Garden Gate
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Grade 6Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 6: The Stopped Clock
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Grade 7Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 7
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Grade 8Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 8: Rosa's Mural
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Grade 8Reading & Writing
Read, Find Evidence, Explain — Grade 8: The Library Photograph
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