PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TOPICS THE NEW STANDARDS
Text-Dependent Questions: Digging Into the Text
Text-Dependent Questions: Digging Into the Text
The new standards require students to read closely to determine what the text explicitly states and make logical inferences. Text-dependent questions require students to return to the text to support their answers. This rereading fosters deep
thinking, the ultimate goal of text-dependent questions. This session focuses on the development of text-dependent questions to facilitate this exposure to a deeper reading and understanding of text by keeping the students in the text. Session Number PD27
Text Evidence: Reading Like a Detective Text Evidence: Reading Like a Detective
As students read complex texts, they are asked to cite textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text. Students are expected to speak and write using evidence presented in texts and to present analyses based on credible information
that is based in the text or research-based. This session will provide instruction and strategies for finding text evidence, analyzing that evidence, and forming conclusions. Session Number PD26
Writing to Master the Next Generation of Assessments
Writing to Master the Next Generation of Assessments
The new standards and next generation of assessments are reshaping writing instruction, particularly as they stress the importance of writing across all curriculum areas. This session emphasizes process-based,
trait-specific instruction (within the writing workshop framework); provides a guided analysis of prototypical Prose Constructed Response; and models how to develop
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performance assessments for classroom use. Participants will “unwrap” the standards and practice writing essential questions as a foundation for implementing the new standards. Session Number PD25
Close Reading: Connect the Pieces to Deeper Meaning
Close Reading: Connect the Pieces to Deeper Meaning
During this session, participants will develop a step-by-step lesson structure and learn how to model a deep text reading, encourage group conversations to analyze text-based information, support students through multiple opportunities
to read increasingly challenging texts, and facilitate writing to answer higher-level text-dependent questions. These close reading activities result in increased student achievement in conjunction with multiple opportunities for all students to productively struggle with complex texts. Session Number PD23
Defining and Teaching Complex Text to Meet the New Standards
Defining and Teaching Complex Text to Meet the New Standards
The new standards place a strong emphasis on text complexity and its role in evaluating students’ college and career readiness. This session focuses on defining text complexity—both quantitatively and qualitatively—and matching readers
to texts and tasks. Participants will learn instructional strategies to support students’ understanding of complex texts. Session Number PD19
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