Introductions and Housekeeping
Sherri Gould
Carol Kiesman
Karen Mayo
Nokomis Regional High
Newport
shgould@rsu19.org
Weatherbee School
Hampden
ckiesman@sad22.us
James H. Bean
Sidney
kfmayo@rsu18.org
Your CDLN Facilitators
Text-Dependent Questions
Webinar #1
Agenda
Welcome and Overview of Procedures
• About Text-Dependent Questions
• Close Reading and Text Dependent Questions
• Creating Text-Dependent Questions
• Next Steps
Outcomes for Today's Session
By the end of today’s webinar, you will
• be able to define text-dependent questions
and explain their importance;
• be able to define close reading and explain its
importance;
• be able to create quality text-dependent
questions.
About Text-Dependent Questions
What are text-dependent questions?
Why are text-dependent questions so
important?
About Text-Dependent Questions
What does the Common Core State Standards
have to say about text-dependent questions?
What do text-dependent questions ask of
students?
Defining Close Reading
What is close reading?
--an instructional strategy
--an analysis of complex text
--an examination of text structure
Considerations for Close Reading
Length of text
Type of text
Complexity of text
Amount of frontloading
Number of readings
Annotating the text
Types of questions
Close reading
and the
Common Core State Standards
Consider the following . . .
Why is close reading an
essential instructional
strategy for all?
Creating text-dependent questions
Why did the North fight the Civil War?
Have you ever been to a funeral or a gravesite?
Why is equality an important value to promote?
Building Text-Dependent Questions
Building Text-Dependent Questions
*Does the student have to read the text to answer the
question?
*Is it always clear to students that they MUST use
evidence from the text to support what they say?
Student-friendly language
Coherent organization
Building text-dependent questions
The first three words of the Constitution are the most important. They
clearly state that the people—not the king, not the legislature, not the
courts—are the true rulers in American government. This principle is
known as popular sovereignty.
But who are “We the People”? This question troubled the nation for
centuries. As Lucy Stone, one of America’s first advocates for women’s
rights, asked in 1853, “‘We the People’? Which ‘We the People’? The
women were not included.” Neither were white males who did not own
property, American Indians, or African Americans—slave or free.
Which words in the Constitution are most important?
Who was Lucy Stone?
When did she live?
What important question did she ask?
What do you think ‘popular sovereignty’ means?
Building text-dependent questions
The first three words of the Constitution are the most important. They
clearly state that the people—not the king, not the legislature, not the
courts—are the true rulers in American government. This principle is
known as popular sovereignty.
But who are “We the People”? This question troubled the nation for
centuries. As Lucy Stone, one of America’s first advocates for women’s
rights, asked in 1853, “‘We the People’? Which ‘We the People’? The
women were not included.” Neither were white males who did not own
property, American Indians, or African Americans—slave or free.
Why would the author begin the second paragraph with a question?
Why has that question troubled the nation for hundreds of years?
Whose story was not represented in the early days of the
Constitution?Whose story was represented?
Monk con’t
Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American on the Supreme Court,
described the limitation:
For a sense of the evolving nature of the Constitution, we need look no
further than the first three words of the document’s preamble: ‘We the
People.’ When the Founding Fathers used this phrase in 1787, they did not
have in mind the majority of America’s citizens . . . The men who gathered
in Philadelphia in 1787 could not . . . have imagined, nor would they have
accepted, that the document they were drafting would one day be
construed by a Supreme court to which had been appointed a woman and
the descendant of an African slave.
What does Marshall mean by “ the evolving nature of the Constitution”
in the first line of the quotation?
Explain why Justice Marshall and Lucy Stone might agree on
the importance of the Constitution to all American people?
Text-dependent questions are
*questions worth asking;
*questions that lead students to think critically;
*questions that propel students to build
knowledge and understanding.
Next Steps
How can I revisit our learning today?
When is our next webinar?
How should I prepare for it?
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