Text-Dependent Questions, Grades K-5

Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Creating Effective Close Reading Lessons Close Reading Defined Close Reading in the Elementary Grades The Phases of Close Reading How Much Frontloading Is Too Much (or Not Enough)? Text-Dependent Questions Drive Close Reading Use Text-Dependent Questions Judiciously Question Yourself Videos Chapter 2. What Does the Text Say? An Invitation to Read Closely: Literal-Level Questions Why Students Need This Type of Questioning Why Classroom Discussion Is Crucial How Examining What the Text Says Addresses the Standards Using Text-Dependent Questions About What the Text Says Question Yourself Practice Text: "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson Videos Chapter 3. How Does the Text Work? An Invitation to Read Closely: Structural-Level Questions Why Students Need This Type of Questioning How Examining How the Text Works Addresses the Standards Using Text-Dependent Questions About How the Text Works Question Yourself Practice Text: Excerpt From Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 19, 1791 Videos Chapter 4. What Does the Text Mean? An Invitation to Read Closely: Inferential-Level Questions Why Students Need This Type of Questioning How Examining What the Text Means Addresses the Standards Using Text-Dependent Questions About What the Text Means Question Yourself Practice Text: "Instances of the Communication of Cholera Through the Medium of Polluted Water in the Neighborhood of Broad Street, Golden Square" by John Snow Videos Chapter 5. What Does the Text Inspire You to Do? An Invitation to Read Closely: Action-Oriented Questions and Tasks Why Students Need to Complete These Types of Tasks How Examining What the Text Inspires You to Do Addresses the Standards Using Text-Dependent Tasks About What the Text Inspires You to Do Question Yourself Practice Text: Excerpt From Introduction to A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the United States Constitution by Roger A. Bruns Practice Text: The Bill of Rights: A Transcription Videos Coda Appendices: Questions for . . . Appendix I: Grades K-1 Appendix II: Grades 2-3 Appendix III: Grades 4-5 References Index About the Authors About the Contributors