Teaching With Text-Based Questions Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts

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Synopsis

Help your students navigate complex texts in history/social studies and English language arts! This book shows you how to use a key tool—text-based questions—to build students’ literacy and critical thinking skills and meet the Common Core State Standards. You’ll learn how to ask text-based questions about different types of nonfiction and visual texts, including primary and secondary sources, maps, charts, and paintings. You’ll also get ideas for teaching students to examine point of view, write analytical responses, compare texts, cite textual evidence, and pose their own high-level questions. The book is filled with examples that you can use immediately or modify as needed. Each chapter ends with a reflection section to help you adapt the ideas to your own classroom.
What’s Inside:


Helpful information on teaching different types of nonfiction texts, including literary nonfiction, informational texts, primary and secondary sources, and visual texts


Ideas for locating primary sources


Questions students should ask about every text


Techniques for soliciting higher-order questions from students


Ways to get students to think critically about the relationships between texts

Strategies to help students integrate information from different types of sources, a skill that will help students respond to performance tasks on the PARCC and SBAC assessments and DBQs on AP exams


Tips for teaching students to write good responses to text-based questions, including how to cite sources and incorporate point of view


Ideas for using rubrics and peer grading to evaluate students’ responses


Connections to the informational reading standards of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts for grades 3-12 and of the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

Book details

Author:
Kevin Thomas Smith
ISBN:
9781317800866
Related ISBNs:
9781315813219, 9780415744041, 9780415744041, 9780415744034, 9780415744034
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-02-02
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2014
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, Education, Nonfiction