Answering with Details from the Text

Find the exact words in the text that answer a question.

When someone asks a question about what you read, the best answers come from the text. A detail is a small piece of information. To answer, go back and find the sentence that has it. Read: 'Frogs start life as tadpoles.

Tadpoles live in water and breathe with gills. Later, they grow legs and lungs. ' Question: How do tadpoles breathe? Look back. The second sentence says 'breathe with gills. ' So the answer is with gills. Don't guess from memory.

Point to the words that prove your answer.

• 1Details are small pieces of information.
• 2Go back to find the sentence with the answer.
• 3Point to the words that prove it.