Text dependent questions

Text-Dependent Question Stems - This 32 page resource is a great way to help your 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classroom or homeschool students find evidence from the text! There are teacher directions, examples, and question stems. You'll also find text-dependent questions tied directly to the Common Core reading anchor standards! Click through to see how this can help with year long test prep for your students! {third, fourth, fifth, sixth grader}

Those of you that have kept up with me this week know that I led staff development at our county’s awesome Summer Literacy Institute. We had some excellent keynote speakers each morning- you can check out some things I took away from them here if you missed it. I wanted to share some things with you […]

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Looking closely at the Common Core Standards, there is a big emphasis on text evidence. For example, fourth grade Common Core State Standard- CCSS RI 4.1 states, "Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text." To take a step further, the standards require students to dig deeper to analyze the text. In fourth grade CCSS RI.4.8, it states, "Explain how the author uses reasons and evidence to support particular…

Teachers and students rely on the RACE or RACES writing strategies to construct high-quality answers using text evidence.

Text Dependent Questions Books Study: Ch 1 Help your students make sense of it all!!! Dive into the book, Text Dependent Questions by Fisher and Frey.

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My text-dependent question stems are the perfect way to get your students back into the text to find answers to higher-level questions. There are 84 different stems that fit key ideas and details, craft and structure, and integration of knowledge and ideas. There are also examples given for each question and ideas on how to use them in your guided reading groups and reading lessons. Help Your Students Find Evidence From the Text When reading, students are expected to use evidence from…

Asking text-dependent questions is heavily routed in the Common Core/PA Core standards. A first step to having students analyze text is training them to look down (text) and not up (teacher) for th…

I love teaching writing. And I am a big fan of writing workshop. So it’s no surprise that one of the most common questions I get asked from teachers is, “How do I teach text dependent writing?” There is a lot of pressure on teachers to help students develop this skill. In fact, I‘m being