Description
Engaging with challenging texts and crafting refined writing is central to an ELA classroom, but pushing students beyond just the text to consider implications for society and the world helps build our students into kind and critical thinking young adults. This module will help you build the skills to design rich text-dependent questions.
Objectives / Competencies
Knowledge
Engaging with challenging texts and crafting refined writing is central to an ELA classroom, but pushing students beyond just the text to consider implications for society and the world helps build our students into kind and critical thinking young adults. This module will help you build the skills to design rich text-dependent questions.
Objectives / Competencies
Knowledge
- Learn what an text-dependent questions are and how to craft one
- Learn how text-dependent questions push students to consider the themes and morals of a text and their implications on society
- Develop text-dependent questions
- Pushing to the text-world level is difficult, but essential, for students to grow as compassionate critical thinkers, and to interrogate the outside world (i.e, windows) and their identities (i.e., mirrors)