Reading & Writing With Meaning: Using Text-Dependent Questions in Any Classroom

Reading & Writing With Meaning provides a structured yet engaging approach to tackling text-dependent questions. These questions help teachers and their students think critically about what they read, regardless of instructional context, subject matter, or grade. Specifically, this book develops teachers’ deep understanding of text-dependent questions, how they are formed, and how they can be used in the classroom.

Instructors working with students of diverse abilities will find this guide’s format, sample text excerpts, and gradual release framework beneficial. Templates, charts, and examples are generously used throughout the book to make text-dependent questions both accessible and useful; a dropbox file of essential templates makes practice opportunities accessible to the teacher.

This book is a great choice for teachers who want to help students develop a deeper understanding of what they read.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction to Text-Dependent Questions

Section 2: Types of Questions

Section 3: Creating Text-Dependent Questions

Section 4: Close Reading and Annotating

Section 5: Assessment

Section 6: Student-Generated

Section 7: Text- Dependent Questions

Section 8: Conclusion

Section 9: Examples of Texts, TDQs and Annotations

Section 10: Templates

Section 11: Glossary

Section 12: References