Getting Started with Text Dependent Analysis - TDA - Bundle

New to TDAs? This product is for you! This BUNDLE includes everything you need to begin teaching TDAs to your students. The products in this bundle are designed to scaffold the learning and instruction to students.

Writing TDAs requires strong inference skills. Students need to be able to find evidence when reading a passage that may not be directly stated. The resources already included in this bundle will help your students begin strengthening those skills.

Update 12-01-18 Teacher Tips have been added!

Update 12-09-18 TDA Graphic Organizers have been added!

Update 01-21-19 Paired Passages, Prompts and Questions have been added!

Resources included in this bundle:

Find the Evidence - Inference Edition Practice Passages

• Find the evidence to support your inference! These 8 practice passages allow for students to practice inference based thinking while reading. Students respond to questions where the answers are not directly stated in the text, and use text evidence sentence starters to introduce their evidence. A great stepping stone to TDA (text dependent analysis) writing.

Text Evidence Sentence Starter Bookmarks

• Use these bookmarks as a helpful reminder for your students! Includes 15 text evidence sentence starters to use when introducing evidence. Perfect when practicing TDAs (text dependent analysis). Comes in 5 colors! Also available with a blank template so students can personalize their own bookmark.

RACES Poster - Text Dependent Analysis Outline

• This poster is great for helping students organize their thoughts in a Text Dependent Analysis (TDA). Print it out for your classroom or shrink it down for individual notebooks. Black and White and Color options available!

TDA Tips - Lesson Plans, Passage, Prompt and Questions

New to TDAs? This is for you! Included in this product is :

• 5 days of lesson plans, tips and tricks for how to introduce TDA writing to your students
• Non-fiction passage about famous inventor, Garrett A Morgan
• 5 multiple choice practice test questions
• TDA prompt
• RACES Poster

This has everything you need to get started! Answers for multiple choice questions included.

Text Dependent Analysis - TDA - Graphic Organizers

• This product includes 4 graphic organizers to help students craft a text dependent analysis (TDA). Use the different graphic organizers to meet the needs of all of your students and differentiate your instruction in the classroom! These follow the RACES outline for responding to a TDA.

R - restate the question

A - answer the question

C - cite your evidence

E - explain your evidence

S - sum it up

Text Dependent Analysis - TDA - Paired Passages, Prompts and Questions

Differentiated Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) Practice!

This product includes:

• 1 non-fiction and 1 fiction passage that can be used individually or paired together. Both come on 2 different levels!

***Perfect to meet the needs of all of your students***

• Each passage also includes 5 multiple-choice test prep questions and a TDA prompt.
• An additional prompt and 5 multiple-choice questions are included if using the passages together.
• RACES outline provided to help students craft their essay.
• Answer Key provided for all of the multiple choice questions.

These passages are great to use individually or together for TDA practice. The paired passages focus on Japanese-American soldiers during World War II.

Note

This resource was initially a growing bundle, but is now complete. If you purchased this product when it was a growing bundle, you will need to return to your "My Purchases" page to download the updated file.

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Text Dependent Analysis Fiction Passages, Prompts and Questions

Text Evidence Sentence Starter Posters