Shift 4: Text-based Answers

Students have rich and rigorous conversations which are dependent on students reading a central text. Teachers ensure classroom experiences stay deeply connected to the text and that students develop habits for making evidentiary arguments based on the text, both in conversation as well as in writing, to assess their comprehension of a text (Appendix A, p. 2).

Awareness & Understanding

Learn about Text-Based Answers

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• Text Dependent Analysis in Action    
  

Explore the CCSS for Literacy

• Take a look at the CCSS for Literacy in your subject area.
• History/Social Studies    
• Science and Technical Subjects    
  

• Become familiar with the Speaking and Listening Standards

CCSS Speaking and Listening Standards Grades 6-12   07/25/2012 (352.13 KB)

Transition

Learn About Text-based Answers in the Classroom

• View 6-12 PowerPoint Session 5: Text-Based Answers    
  This is the fifth of six sessions in Module 1: Common Core Instruction for ELA & Literacy. Module 1 explains the unique Common Core emphasis—teaching students literacy skills in English Language Arts (ELA) and to apply them in every other subject.
• Review CCSS Snapshots on Text-based Answers   06/21/2012 (128.45 KB)
  From "K-12 Teachers: Building Comprehension in the Common Core"

• Read about teaching comprehension
  From "Oregon K-12 Literacy Framework: Instruction" (pp. 22-26)

• Read about text-based answers & instructional material
  From "Publisher's Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts & Literacy"

• Learn about text dependent questions using the Guide to Creating Text Dependent Questions for Close Analytic Reading    
  Educators can start by learning how to distinguish between text dependent and non-text dependent, between quality and trivial questions, and by crafting their own text dependent questions.

Contacts

• Karin Moscon     (503) 947-5706
  Secondary/Post Secondary Transitions - Education Program Specialist, CTE Civil Rights