General questions only give students too much room to express opinions instead of comprehension.
Text dependent questions strategy. The Student Achievement Partners guide says that text dependent questions aim to help students see something worthwhile that they would not have seen in a more cursory reading This is a goal I completely share. Text dependent questions help ensure students comprehension of the text as well as help students focus on the texts academic vocabulary and sentence structures. Developing text-dependent questions and applying a constructed-response strategy to answer these questions was a common instructional practice in my third-grade classroom and may also benefit middle school students.
Text-Based Questions are questions that must be answered only by reading through a text. This rereading fosters deep thinking the ultimate goal of text-dependent questions. Using text-dependent questions with close reading has been eye-opening for me because previously.
But the text dependent question approach relies on teachers directing. Implementing this reading strategy dont ask questions that students can answer without directly using their reading material as the resource. Focus your initial questions on tackling these obstacles and then introduce additional questions that address more complex topics such as themes or points of view.
Teachers in grades 2 5 should use this guide to give. Text-dependent questions require students to return to the text to support their answers. Write down as many text-dependent analysis or TDA questionprompts as you can think of on a scratch piece of paper.
Questioning while reading is a valuable skill to teach your students. When analyzing a text start with more straightforward text-dependent questions that help with comprehension. When answering these questions students learn to reread and think deeply about the text.
As the name suggests a textdependent question specifically asks a question that can only be answered by referring explicitly back to the text being read. The text were using should be. Teachers need to create text-dependent questions to elicit close reading.