1. Tools for Teachers: Text-Dependent Questions – Crafting Text- dependent questions Implementing Key Shifts in the CCSS ELA Level 2 Session 3

2. Session Objectives As a result of this session, participants will… Revisit Shift # 2 - Reading and Writing Grounded in Evidence from the Text Reexamine the characteristics of text-dependent questions. Learn how to employ a structured process to create text-dependent questions at the word/phrase, sentence, and paragraph/passage levels. © 2012 The Aspen Institute

3. A systematic approach to creating text- dependent questions for complex texts while aligning them with the demands of the CCSS. Tools for Creating Text-Dependent Questions: Text-Dependent Question Worksheet © 2012 The Aspen Institute

4. Progression of Text-dependent Questions Opinions, Arguments, Intertextual Connections InferencesAuthor’s PurposeVocab & Text StructureKey DetailsGeneral Understandings Part Sentence Paragraph Entire text Across texts Word Whole Segments 8 & 9 3 & 7 6 4 & 5 2 1 Standards Doug Fisher

6. “Close Reading” of a Stand-Alone Text © 2012 The Aspen Institute

9. Create 2 Text Dependent Questions for this Text

10. A systematic approach to revising Basal reader/textbook questions to align them with the demands of the CCSS. Tools for Creating Text-Dependent Questions: Basal Reader/Textbook Review Worksheet © 2012 The Aspen Institute BEFORE: Do you think our society values people’s appearance more than their character? Why or why not? How does Cyrano’s appearance influence his behavior? Is his perception accurate? AFTER

11. Effective text- dependent questions ask students to extract evidence from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions based on what the text says explicitly. Time to Reflect © 2012 The Aspen Institute

12. 1. Thank you to the Aspen Institute for sharing their work. This work has been adapted with their permission. http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/tools-teachers-implementing-key- shifts-common-core-state-standards 2. The Text-Dependent Questions by Tracy Watanabe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on the work of Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey.