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Text-Dependent Analysis (TDA) Educator Resources Pam Bachner, Grand Blanc Schools Melissa Wing, Genesee Intermediate School District Adapted from · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 1

Text. Dependent Analysis (TDA) Text. Dependent Questions Assessment item Instructional strategy to address standards · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 2

What is a Text-Dependent Analysis? • Text-dependent analysis require close reading of a text. · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 3

What is a Text-Dependent Analysis? • These questions require students to provide evidence from the text to draw inferences based on what the text says in order to support an analysis. · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 4

What is a Text-Dependent Analysis? • This is different from reading comprehension questions which require students to read to get the “gist” of the text. Not Text-Dependent Analysis Question In the text there once was a curious bird who says to Tortoise, “ And you showed yourself, too. ” Describe a time when you showed yourself you could do something. The text begins with: There once was a curious bird who wondered, What can a small bird be? Write an essay that analyzes why the authors chose to begin the text with this question. Use evidence from the text to support your response. · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 5

Standards Key Ideas and Details Literary Text Informational Text RL-1, RL-2, RL-3 RI-1, RI-2, RI-3 Craft and Structure Literary Text Informational Text RL-4, RL-5, RL-6 Writing W-9 · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · RI-4, RI-5, RI-6 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas RI-7, RI-8, RI-9 6

Depth of Knowledge and TDA Questions DOK 1 Recall and Reproduction • Basic recall of concepts, definitions, facts, and processes • Simple skills and abilities or recall of one right answer • Answering a Level 1 item can involve following a simple well-known procedure or formula DOK 2 Basic Application of Skills and Concepts • Includes the engagement of some mental processing beyond recalling or reproducing a response • Items require students to make some decisions as to how to approach the question or problem – acting on the information • These actions imply more than one mental or cognitive process/step, but there is still one right answer DOK 3 Strategic Thinking • Requires deep understanding as exhibited through planning or sequencing steps • Requires some decision making with justification and evidence • Assessment items have more than one possible answer and are abstract, complex, or non-routine DOK 4 Extended Thinking • Requires high cognitive demand is very complex • An investigation or application that requires time to research, think, or process multiple conditions of the problem • Non-routine manipulations or connections across disciplines/content/areas/multiple sources · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 7

Text. Dependent Questions Reading for Evidence Text. Dependent Analysis Reading and writing grounded in evidence from the text. · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 8

Let’s Take a Look at a Text Dependent Analysis Sample • http: //melissawingela. weebly. com/mstep. html Living Off the Earth (4 th grade) · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 9

Now Let’s Practice! • http: //melissawingela. weebly. com/mstep. html One Lucky Fish (4 th grade) · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 10

How Do We Get Students Ready? Think about the mini-lessons that you will need to teach and have your students practice for Text Dependent Analysis. · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 11

How do we get students ready? For reading, students must grasp information, arguments, ideas, and details based on careful attention to the text. Close Reading Annotation of Text Reading Strategies (Fisher and Frey) Text-Dependent Questions · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 12

How do we get students ready? Prewrite Publish Edit Write For writing, students must write to present analyses, well-defended claims, and clear thoughts using textual evidence. Revise · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 13

How do we get students ready? Educators become masterful at using textdependent questions to help students achieve these objectives. Read for the gist Read the prompt Close read the passage · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · Re-read the question Organize thoughts Compose a response 14

Progression of Text-Dependent Questions Whole. What Across texts Entire text Segments Paragraph Sentence Word the doe me text s an ? How d the oes te say xt it? Wh doe at tex s the t sa y? Part Opinions, Arguments, Standards Intertextual Connections 8&9 Inferences 3&7 Author’s Purpose 6 Vocab & Text Structure 4&5 Key Details 2 General Understandings 1 Source: Fisher and Frey Text-Dependent Questions https: //www. fisherandfrey. com/resources/ · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 15

General Understandings • Overall view • Sequence of information • Story arc • Main claim and evidence • Gist of passage Standards RI. 1 and RL. 1 Source: Fisher and Frey Text-Dependent Questions https: //www. fisherandfrey. com/resources/ · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 16

Key Ideas Standards RI. 2 and RL. 2 • 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 Source: Fisher and Frey Text-Dependent Questions https: //www. fisherandfrey. com/resources/ · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 17

Vocabulary and Text Structure Standards RI. 4, RI. 5 RL. 4, RL. 5 • Denotation • Connotation • Bridges literal and inferential meanings • Shades of meaning • Figurative language • How organization contributes to meaning Source: Fisher and Frey Text-Dependent Questions https: //www. fisherandfrey. com/resources/ · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 18

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? Standards RI. 6, RL. 6 Source: Fisher and Frey Text-Dependent Questions https: //www. fisherandfrey. com/resources/ · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 19

Inferences • Probe • Each argument in persuasive text • Each idea in informational text • Each key detail in literary text • Observe how these build a whole. Standards RI. 3, RI. 7, RL. 3, RL. 7 Source: Fisher and Frey Text-Dependent Questions https: //www. fisherandfrey. com/resources/ · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 20

Opinions, Arguments, and Intertextual Connections • Claims • Evidence • Author’s opinion and reasoning (K-5) • Counterclaims • Ethos, Pathos, Logos • Rhetoric Standards RI. 8, RI. 9, RL. 8, RL. 9 Source: Fisher and Frey Text-Dependent Questions https: //www. fisherandfrey. com/resources/ · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 21

Develop Text-Dependent Questions § Do the questions require the reader to return to the text? § Do the questions require the reader to use evidence to support his or her ideas or claims? § Do the questions move from text-explicit to text-implicit knowledge? § Are there questions that require the reader to analyze, evaluate, and create? Source: Fisher and Frey Text-Dependent Questions https: //www. fisherandfrey. com/resources/ · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 22

Writer’s Checklist · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 23

Scoring Rubric 4 point scale • 1 – lowest • 4 – highest Holistic rubric • A single score based on the overall judgement of student work · An Excellent Education for Every Student Every Day · 24

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