1. Teaching Engage NY Module 3: Peter Pan Common Core Questioning through Interactive Notebooks
Meredith Starks Bellaire Elementary
Addie Kelley MAT, Elm Grove Elementary

3. So what is text-dependent questioning?
Common Core questioning requires students to actually read a text and goes deeper than the 5Ws
So what is text-dependent questioning?

4. Text-Dependent Questions
Answered through close reading of a complex text
Evidence comes from the text not outside sources
Require understanding beyond basic facts
Invitation for students to think deeply about a text and compare it with their own perspectives and experiences.
Focus on the text itself to build a strong foundation of knowledge
Use explicit and implicit information from the text to support reasoning.
Focus on difficult portions of text in order to enhance reading proficiency

5. Non-Example
If you were present at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, what would you do?
Example
What are the reasons listed in the preamble for supporting the author’s argument to separate from Great Britain?

7. How do I use this with my students?
Not a rigid hierarchy
Notice frequency of levels of questions
Students must be TAUGHT how to respond deeply, citing evidence from the text.

8. General Understandings
Overall view of text
Global questions
Understanding of what the author “really” said
Gist
Core understandings
Central ideas

9. Key Details 5W Nuances in meaning Determine importance
Main idea and supporting details

10. Vocabulary and Text Structure
Specific words and phrases
Text structure
Literal and inferential meanings
Denotation and connotation
Figurative language
Text organization
Semantics and syntax

11. Author’s Purpose
PIE
POV
Distinguishing own POV apart from the author

12. Inferences Not just guessing or “reading between the lines”
Students probe arguments in persuasive text
Students probe each fact in informational text
Students probe each detail in literary text
Observe how each part builds into a whole text

13. Opinions, arguments, and intertextual connections
Generate discussion and personal connections
Should still be built on text dependency
Analyze claims, evidence and counterclaims
Consider logic and perspectives other than their own

14. Why ask text-dependent questions?
To teach kids to:
Ask text-dependent questions of themselves
Think critically
Analyze
Construct well-reasoned arguments with evidence

15. Planning Text Dependent Questions
Use the language of the standards

16. Modifying “Text-Dependent” Questions from Peter Pan
Original
How did Peter get inside the Darling children’s room? Use evidence from the text to support your thinking.
PARCC Framework
How does Peter’s visit to the nursery fit into the sequence of events in Chapter 2? Use evidence from the text to support your thinking.

17. (continued) Original PARCC Framework
How did the stars help Peter at the end of the chapter? Use evidence from the text to support your thinking.
PARCC Framework
How do the stars’ actions contribute to the story? Use evidence from the text to support your thinking.

18. How do I scaffold rigorous text-dependent questions for my kids?
Interactive Notebooks!

19. What are Interactive Notebooks?
A note taking process that allows students to record information in a personal and meaningful way.
A way for students use teacher supplied notes to draw whatever illustration makes sense to them.
A way for students to personalize their work.
A way for students to organize and keep up with their learning.

20. Interactive vs. Regular Notebooks
Students record notes from a teacher
Worksheets
Knowledge
Comprehension
Interactive
Creative, independent thinkers and learners
Students express their own ideas in addition to teacher instruction
Synthesis
Evaluation

21. This Process… Can be challenging Takes a bit of patience and planning
Requires modeling, modeling, modeling
Must consistently be reinforced
Takes time to learn both for the teacher and for the students to develop their own style

22. The Payoff… Is a way for students to organize their work
Uses reading strategies within a content area, such as science or social studies
Helps students keep up with useful information throughout a unit of study

23. …And Finally Students make their own meaningful connections
It encourages pride in student work
It encourages cooperative learning
It appeals to multiple intelligences
The kids love it and learn so much!

24. What Students Need…
The notebook-loose leaf paper in a three pronged folder, spiral notebook, or composition book
Pencils, regular and colored
Liquid glue or a glue stick
Scissors
Ruler
Teacher supplied notes
Grading expectations

26. Table of Contents This is the student’s organizing page.
Is an outline of their notebook and can be filled in as they go or completed at the end of the unit. It is easier to fill in as you go!
Make sure students leave enough room, especially for big units

27. Vocabulary Word Wall Pages “Landmark” Vocabulary Pages
Literary Word Wall
Peter Pan
Wendy
Tinker Bell
Captain Hook
Supporting Characters
“Landmark” Vocabulary Pages
New vocabulary words in context

28. Original Engage NY Vocabulary

29. “Landmark” Vocabulary
new word
original sentence from text
working definition, context clues, and inferences
linguistic structure
student illustration to SHOW MEANING
words with similar word parts;
i.e. jealousy
student sentence to SHOW MEANING
synonyms
antonyms

30. Daily Chapter Work
Record lesson objectives in language of the standards
Can write directly into notebooks during QuickWrites
Can create foldables and glue into notebooks.
Collect Reading Response activities and exit tickets in notebook.

31. More examples of Interactive Notebook entries

32. Using Foldables
Original Engage NY Work Page
Foldable Recording Form

33. Students working together in their Interactive Notebooks

34. It’s that simple!!!
Interactive notebooks provide the perfect scaffold for rigorous text-dependent questions!