Transcript Creating Text Dependent Questions

Creating Text Dependent
Questions
MONICA CURIEL
CLAS
2013
Text-Dependent Questions...
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Can only be answered with evidence from the text.
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Focus on word, sentence, and paragraph, as well as
larger ideas, themes, or events.
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Focus on difficult portions of text in order to enhance
reading proficiency.
Can be literal (checking for understanding) but must
also involve analysis, synthesis, evaluation.
Non-Examples and Examples
Not Text-Dependent
In “Casey at the Bat,” Casey strikes
out. Describe a time when you failed
at something.
In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,”
Dr. King discusses nonviolent protest.
Discuss, in writing, a time when you
wanted to fight against something
that you felt was unfair.
In “The Gettysburg Address”
Lincoln says the nation is dedicated
to the proposition that all men are
created equal. Why is equality an
important value to promote?
Text-Dependent
What makes Casey’s experiences at
bat humorous?
What can you infer from King’s letter
about the letter that he received?
“The Gettysburg Address” mentions
the year 1776. According to Lincoln’s
speech, why is this year significant to
the events described in the speech?
Types of Text-Dependent Questions
When you're writing or
reviewing a set of
questions, consider the
following progression of
question types:
General Understandings
• Overall view
• Sequence of
information
• Story arc
• Main claimand
evidence
• Gist of passage
General Understandings in
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
Retell the story in order using the words
beginning, middle, and end.
Key Details
• Search for nuances in
meaning
• Determine importance of
ideas
• Find supporting details that
support main ideas
• Answers who, what, when,
where, why, how much, or
how many.
Key Details
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How long did it take to go from a hatched
egg to a butterfly?
What is one food that gave him a
stomach ache? What is one food that
did not give him a stomach ache?
Vocabulary and Text Structure
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Bridges literal and
inferential meanings
Denotation
Connotation
Shades of meaning
Figurative language
How organization
contributes to
meaning
Vocabulary
How does the author help us to understand
what cocoon means?
Author’s Purpose
• Genre: Entertain? Explain? Inform?
Persuade?
• Point of view: First-person, third-person
limited, omniscient, unreliable narrator
• Critical Literacy: Whose story is not
represented?
Author’s Purpose
Who tells the story—the narrator or the
caterpillar?
Inferences
• Not simply “guesses”
• Consider the information and form
responses
• Analyze how multiple ideas build to a
whole
• “Read between the lines”
Inferences
The title of the book is "The
Very Hungry Caterpillar." How
do we know he is hungry?
Opinions, Arguments, and Intertextual
Connections
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Author’s opinion and reasoning (K-5)
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Claims
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Evidence
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Counterclaims
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Ethos, Pathos, Logos
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Rhetoric
 Links to other texts throughout the grades
Opinions and Intertextual
Connections
Narrative
Is this a happy story or a
sad one? How do you
know?
Informational
How are these two
books similar? How are
they different?