1. 6th Grade Language Arts August 17 – 21, 2015
Mrs. Dollar
6th Grade Language Arts
August 17 – 21, 2015

2. What is Close Reading?

4. Why should you annotate a Text?

5. What markings can we use?

6. Text Dependent Questions
A question is an inquiry – a wonder – something that needs to be answered.
A text is a piece of writing.
Dependent – depend is the root – what does that mean? You need it.
So Text Dependent Question is an inquiry that cannot be answered without using evidence from the text.

7. Constructed Response
Constructed - Construction means to build something constructed means that something has been built.
Response - A response is an answer
Question - A question is an issue or inquiry that requires a response to it.
When you put them all together you get the idea that a
Constructed Response is a type of answer that you will have to build or create.

8. R.A.C.E.
To answer a constructed response you need a “blueprint”. We are going to use the RACE strategy to help us learn how to answer a text dependent question with a constructed response.