What are text-based questions?

What are Text- Based Questions?
How can we use evidence from the text to support our responses?

Initial Meaning/Initial Response - this is the kids' response to a text after the initial read.

Then we dig deeper and break apart the text. We want to look closely at the author's purpose, reasoning for words used, and see what strategies we need to use in order to understand what's written between the lines.

The bottom part of the anchor was work done in response to the first page of Bats at the Beach.
The kids visualized the first page and then had to flip over the index card and respond to the two posed questions (written in orange).

How can visuals help demonstrate important ideas?

We determined the important message from the author and then created visuals to help demonstrate important ideas from the text Common Ground

Math Anchor

Using our Schema about vocabulary to help make meaning in math.

Initial Responses to Text - Close Reading Introduction

Determine Importance

Synthesizing

Our thoughts change as we gain new information.......resulting in synthesizing.

As of late.....

Today, I sent home another copy of the Thinking Stems. In September I sent home an almost identical letter, but it stated which strategies we covered during August and September. Our kids  have covered all of the comprehension strategies and we are in a constant mode of using many of the strategies while we read. The hope is that the students will independently use these strategies while reading text.

This evening you will also see the 120 Chart in your child's folder. Students should be able to read, write, and represent numbers 0-120.

The 120 Chart is a tool that can help the students with problem solving and skip counting.