Transcript Text-Dependent Question

Where we’re heading…
Text-Dependent Question Components
Text
Analysis
Text
Evidence
Collaborative
Discussions
Conceptual
Foundation
According to animal
planet (2008), dolphins
are known to form close
bonds with other
dolphins that may last
an entire lifetime.
Considering that female
dolphins are more
successful if they have
contact with other
dolphin mothers (Shute,
2010), it can be
concluded that these
marine mammals are
very social creatures!
Access Points to Complex Text
 Establishing a Clear Purpose
 Include a “Hook,” motivating activity
 Close Reading
 Analyze text through text-dependent questions
 Collaborative discussions
 Encourage building on the ideas of others
 Express claims backed by evidence
 Wide Reading
 Provide high interest reading daily
 Encourage idea sharing through ungraded follow-up activities
Text-dependent Questions…
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focus on students gathering evidence, knowledge, and insight from text
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do not rely on background knowledge or personal experiences
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require careful consideration of the text to answer
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develop conceptual foundation to support answers
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aid critical thinking in group and class discussions
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challenge the text with the text
The Making of a Scientist
 This exemplar lesson demonstrates the progression of
text-dependent questions.
The Making of a Scientist by Richard Feynam
Vocabulary
Grade K The Hungry Caterpillar
With prompting and support,
ask and answer questions
about key details in a text.
Grade 1
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Grade 3 Fly Away Home
Grade 1-2
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why,
and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Grade 5,8 Declaration of Independence
Establish and Practice Procedures
Close Reading and Text Dependent Questions
Be Creative with Scholastic News
Collaborative Discussion Time
 Select a lesson
 Analyze the various components of the lesson
 Lesson Plan
 Teacher Guide
 Student Guide
 Discuss ways you could modify to fit your grade level/subject
 Middle math lesson included for analysis by math teachers
How to Create Text-Dependent Questions
Step One: Identify Core Understandings and Key Ideas of the Text
Step Two: Start Small to Build Confidence with easy opening questions
Step Three: Target Vocabulary and Text Structure
Step Four: Tackle Tough Sections Difficult syntax, dense information, tricky transitions, inferences
Step Five: Create Coherent Sequences of Text Dependent Questions
Build toward gradual understanding of text’s meaning
Step Six: Identify the Standards That Are Being Addressed
Step Seven: Create the Culminating Assessment
Text-based writing, Socratic Seminars , Class Debate
Resources
 http://www.mybookezzz.org/text-dependent-questions-in-math/
 Grade 1 Why We Need Rules and Laws ( LACOE website)
 Grades 2-3 Fly Away Home Exemplar
 Grade 5-6 The Making of a Scientist by David Liben, The Role and
Responsibility of Citizens and Government in a Representative
Democracy (LACOE website)
 Grade 7 Close Reading of the Declaration of Independence by Tammy
Butler
 Additional Lesson Plans for all grade levels St. Joseph School District
Prompts for Text-Dependent Questions
 Prompts for Text-Dependent Questions
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Prompts-forText-Dependent-Questions-488898
 Text-Dependent Prompts for Writing
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/TextDependent-Prompts-for-Writing-481547
Instructional Videos
 Close Reading (Grade 1)
 Higher Order Questions: A Path to Deeper Learning (Upper Elementary
 “Creating Text Dependent Questions” (Upper Elementary)
 Teaching Higher Order Thinking (Upper Elementary)
 Cyberbullying Interactive Blog (Middle School)
Works Cited
 Engaging the Adolescent Learner by Fisher and Frey
 Close Reading Teacher’s Guide to Asking Text-Dependent
Questions
 “The Hungry Catepillar” Example from Text Complexity PD
Powerpoint. Mya Mikkelsen, 2012
 What’s the Secret to Successful Close Reading? Strategic
Preparation and Follow Up” by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
in Reading Today, October/November 2013 (Vol. 31, #2, p. 1617), www.reading.org
Works Cited
 “Points of Entry” by Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher
in Educational Leadership, November 2013 (Vol. 71, #3, p. 3438), www.ascd.org
 “Why Content Is King” by E.D. Hirsch Jr. and Lisa Hansel
in Educational Leadership, November 2013 (Vol. 71, #3, p. 2833), www.ascd.org; Hansel can be reached
[email protected].
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