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Everybody will be required to Everybody will be required to participate (DEC, ESL, etc.)participate (DEC, ESL, etc.)

Nation-wideNation-wide PARCC will be here next year. PARCC will be here next year.

Partnership for Assessment of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and CareerReadiness for College and Career

Become familiar with parcconline.orgBecome familiar with parcconline.org

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CCSS: Key Shifts in ELA & CCSS: Key Shifts in ELA & LiteracyLiteracy

1.1. Complexity: Complexity: Regular practice with Regular practice with complex text and its academic language.complex text and its academic language.

2.2. Evidence: Evidence: Reading, writing and Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational.text, both literary and informational.

3.3. Knowledge: Knowledge: Building knowledge Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction.through content-rich nonfiction.

Common Core Basics-Common Core Basics-What?What?

are focused on the text.are focused on the text. are generally text-specific rather than generic are generally text-specific rather than generic

questions that could be asked of any text. questions that could be asked of any text. don’don’t get students off of the text (e.g., tell me t get students off of the text (e.g., tell me

about a time you went camping…).about a time you went camping…). require students to re-read the text closely to do require students to re-read the text closely to do

such things as draw inferences, develop such things as draw inferences, develop interpretations, and analyze ideas and language.interpretations, and analyze ideas and language.

may promote convergent (comprehension) and may promote convergent (comprehension) and divergent (interpretation/analysis) thinking about a divergent (interpretation/analysis) thinking about a text.text.

Text Dependent Text Dependent QuestionsQuestions

Sequencing Text-based Questions for Sequencing Text-based Questions for Instruction: Instruction: Types of Questions Types of Questions Prior Knowledge (P) Prior Knowledge (P) ((non-text-based)non-text-based)Comprehension (C) Comprehension (C) (includes vocabulary (includes vocabulary work)work)Significance (S)Significance (S)Interpretive (I)Interpretive (I)Analytic (A)Analytic (A)StepBack (SB) StepBack (SB) ((non-text-based)non-text-based)Retrospective (R)Retrospective (R) (text-based and/or non-(text-based and/or non-text-based)text-based)

Text Dependent Text Dependent QuestionsQuestions

Look at the handout: Moving From…Look at the handout: Moving From…Moving ToMoving To

What do you notice?What do you notice?

Text Dependent Text Dependent Questions(TDQs)Questions(TDQs)

Read the handout on Text-Based Read the handout on Text-Based QuestionsQuestions

What do you wonder?What do you wonder?

Text Dependent Text Dependent Questions(TDQs)Questions(TDQs)

TDQs-ExamplesTDQs-Examples

Read “Eleven” by Sandra CisnerosRead “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros Get into groups of 2-4 and create Get into groups of 2-4 and create

TDQs for ElevenTDQs for Eleven

TDQs-Let’s PracticeTDQs-Let’s Practice

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TDQs-Let’s CompareTDQs-Let’s Compare

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Get into groups of 2-4 and create Get into groups of 2-4 and create TDQsTDQs

TDQs-Let’s PracticeTDQs-Let’s Practice

Each group share a question that you Each group share a question that you createdcreated

TDQs-Let’s CompareTDQs-Let’s Compare

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