1. { Common Core Basics and Text Dependent Questions Abasi McKinzie, Ed. D.

2.  Everybody will be required to participate (DEC, ESL, etc.)  Nation-wide  PARCC will be here next year.  Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career  Become familiar with parcconline.org Common Core Basics-Info

3.  file://localhost/Users/abasimckinzie/Desktop/PARCC ESL.pdf file://localhost/Users/abasimckinzie/Desktop/PARCC ESL.pdf file://localhost/Users/abasimckinzie/Desktop/PARCC ESL.pdf Common Core Basics-Info

5. Common Core Basics-Info?

6. http://www.tntel.tnsos.org/curricular.htm

7.  CCSS: Key Shifts in ELA & Literacy 1. Complexity: Regular practice with complex text and its academic language. 2. Evidence: Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational. 3. Knowledge: Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction. Common Core Basics-What?

8.  are focused on the text.  are generally text-specific rather than generic questions that could be asked of any text.  don’t get students off of the text (e.g., tell me about a time you went camping…).  require students to re-read the text closely to do such things as draw inferences, develop interpretations, and analyze ideas and language.  may promote convergent (comprehension) and divergent (interpretation/analysis) thinking about a text. Text Dependent Questions

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

10.  Look at the handout: Moving From…Moving To  What do you notice? Text Dependent Questions(TDQs)

11.  Read the handout on Text-Based Questions  What do you wonder? Text Dependent Questions(TDQs)

12. TDQs-Examples

13.  Read “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros  Get into groups of 2-4 and create TDQs for Eleven TDQs-Let’s Practice

14.  file://localhost/Users/abasimckinzie/Deskt op/ELA 6-8 Eleven.doc file://localhost/Users/abasimckinzie/Deskt op/ELA 6-8 Eleven.doc file://localhost/Users/abasimckinzie/Deskt op/ELA 6-8 Eleven.doc TDQs-Let’s Compare

15.  Read the news article on limiting kids’ online time from newsela.com  740 Lexile Level  Get into groups of 2-4 and create TDQs TDQs-Let’s Practice

16.  Each group share a question that you created TDQs-Let’s Compare

17.  Tncore.org  Username: tneducation  Password: fastestimproving  Sign up for emails  Engageny.org  Type common core units in search bar on site  Newsela.com  mckinzieah@scsk12.org mckinzieah@scsk12.org  http://www.hpcsd.org/district.cfm?subpage= 29208 Resources