A series of instructional resources developed to provide educators with guidance on teaching the underlying components of a text dependent analysis question.
Types: Toolkit
Successfully analyzing text, at any grade level, requires more than a lesson that guides students in responding to a text dependent analysis prompt for one particular text.
Text dependent analysis questions were developed for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment in response to the PA Core Standards.
Close reading lessons for comprehension and text dependent analysis.
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Responding to text dependent analysis questions requires students to “draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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