Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Learners will read four text massages and rewrite them using proper grammar and correct spelling and punctuation.

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prove It With Text Evidence.

Who’s voice is MISSING from the nonfiction text? Use this exercise with your students to analyze missing perspectives in informational text.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

This mentor text can support fifth graders as they learn good technique for argument essay writing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.