Text Dependent Analysis - TDA - Bundle of Passages, Prompts and Questions - V1

This bundle includes 14 passages, prompts, questions, and sample responses! Perfect to use in the classroom as your students practice TDAs. The passages are engaging and cover topics students actually enjoy! Here are the titles and topics for each resource included:

Non-fiction

• What's Happening in Space? (International Space Station)
• It's a Home Run (Softball and Baseball)
• Life in the Trenches (Trench Warfare during WWI)

Fiction

• Twin Trouble (A brother and sister have a birthday party disagreement)
• Elevator Disaster (Jasper and his friend get trapped in an elevator)
• Pet Paradise (Zeke is excited to start his new job at the pet store)

Biography

• Can You Hear Me Now? (Alexander Graham Bell - known for the telephone)
• Code Breaker (Alan Turing - known for deciphering German code during WWII)
• Fly Me to the Moon (Margaret Hamilton - known for writing the code for Apollo 11)

Poetry

• Cooking Queen (One child's take on his grandmother's cooking)
• One World (We must protect and preserve the world around us)
• Camping Chaos (A family has a crazy camping adventure)

Paired Passages

• The Noble Nisei (A non-fiction account of Japanese-American fighter pilots during WWII)
• Go For Broke (A fictional story about a Japanese-American who fought during WWII)