Student Achievement Partners
Achieve the Core: Professional Dev: Understanding Text Dependent Questions
Understanding Text-Dependent Questions is a 1-4 hour module designed to promote understanding of how text-dependent questions support the key shifts required by the Common Core State Standards for ELA/Literacy. It includes the following:...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Depend on the Text! How to Create Text Dependent Questions
This strategy guide focuses on writing text-dependent questions which require the student to reread the text to support their answers. It offers a list of what to do to create these questions that progress from establishing general...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: "The Crucible": Inspiration and Reception
This media gallery explores the inspiration for and reception of "The Crucible" during the Hollywood Blacklist with videos from the American Masters film "None Without Sin." The videos and support materials are best used during or after...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Huac and Hollywood
This video and support materials detail the Hollywood blacklist and House Un-American Activities Committee, chronicling the fear of Communism and resulting blacklist based on political ideology. The video is from the American Masters...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Huac: Backlash and Implications
These videos and support materials explore the intense division experienced by those who testified before and blacklisted by HUAC during the Cold War, focusing on the testimony of Elia Kazan. The videos are from American Masters None...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hemingway: The Man Versus the Image
Learn about Ernest Hemingway's public persona and how it differed from the actual life of the writer in these videos from the American Masters film Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea. Using video, text, and text-dependent discussion...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading Comprehension Across Genres: Annotate for Meaning
This lesson focuses on Annotation, a "writing-to-learn" strategy. It consists of writing explanatory notes and critical (analytical) commentary to yourself. Annotating text consists of two steps: (1) underlining, highlighting, circling,...