Text dependent analysis

Posts about Text Dependent Analysis written by Heidi Louella

Lemme just tell you. This lesson is amazing for lots of reasons. It gets your kids up and moving. They want to move. Hence, fidget spinner mania. It gets your kids collaborating with one another. It forces your students to "out smart" one another, in the friendly spirit of academic excellence of course. (Duh.) It forces your…

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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}

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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…

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

This year I've been putting lots of thought into the new text-dependent analysis tasks that students have to complete for our state tests. My fourth graders will have to write not one but two passage-based essays, in which they will be expected to write introductions and conclusions, weave quotes from the text into their essays, and use "sophisticated" transitions. It's an intimidating task! Avoiding shortcuts I've been thinking carefully about the task because I don't want to use…

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…