NLCI Kindergarten
Resources and Follow-up for all Kindergarten Teachers
Goals of This Newsletter
The resources on this SMORE have been gathered to help our Kindergarten teachers better understand how to create lessons that include Text Dependent Questions (TDQ's). The SMORE is divided into 3 sections as follows:
Why TDQ's?
How to create TDQ's
How to teach TDQ's
"What Good Looks Like" when using TDQ's
Why are Text Dependent Questions important?
Dr. Timothy Shanahan Using Text Dependent Questions
Hear how Dr. Shanahan describes the importance of using Text Dependent Questions to lead students to deeper learning from more and more complex text.
Using Text Dependent Questions with Dr. Timothy Shanahan
How to create TDQ's
Video of Kindergarten Teacher modeling how to create TDQ's with nonfiction: click the link below
Finding Text Evidence- Kindergarten
What Good Looks Like for TDQ's
Video of kindergarten close reading using TDQ's: click the link below
kindergarten text dependent questions
Annotation bookmark from Ann Chung's first grade teacher in Milpitas CA,
Kindergarten teachers can modify this or use the ideas on a prompting chart on the wall.
TDQ's: Focus on a phrase from the text in Kgn - Vickie Bernstein, Camelback Desert
Process board comparing a fiction and nonfiction text.-Vickie Bernstein, Camelback Desert School
Integrating literacy and science to learn about life cycles
Ann Chung, grade 1 Merryhill Milpitas, using TDQ's with Reading Street
Teacher has TDQ prompts on sentence strips to help students respond using those stems.
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