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).