Text-Dependent Questions, Grades 6-12: Pathways to Close and Critical Reading

Fisher & Frey’s answer to close and critical readingLearn the best ways to use text-dependent questions as scaffolds during close reading and the big understandings they yield. But that’s just for starters. Fisher and Frey also include illustrative video, texts and questions, cross-curricular examples, and an online facilitator’s guide―making the two volumes of TDQ a potent professional development tool across all of K–12.

The genius of TDQ is the way Fisher and Frey break down the process into four cognitive pathways: What does the text say? How does the text work? What does the text mean?

What does the text inspire you to do?