Education Standards
Formal Assessment: Citing Evidence and Making Inferences
Text Dependent Questions
Text Dependent Analysis : How to use TDA to write an essay
Overview
Included are two lessons to help sixth grade students gain a beginning understanding of how to cite evidence and make inferences. This is one lesson I will use prior to beginning expository writing. Students should already have knowledge of context clues.
Lesson One: What does "Text Dependent Analysis (TDA)" actually mean?
This lesson is based on the assumption that students have prior knowledge of context clues and making inferences.
Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) - What the heck does that mean?????????
Let's break down the vocabulary and dive into thinking...
1. Text - any source of reading material.
2. Dependent - when something ( your analysis in this instance) or someone relies on something (text) or someone else.
3. Analysis - a better understandng and/or explanation of something (text) or someone.
4. Text Evidence- quotations, summaries and/or paraphrasing from a text to support a position
5. Quotation Marks - use quotation marks around any evidence that is directly stated from the text.
6. Plagiarism - when you copy information from a text without citing the source - this is illegal!
So basically, writing a TDA is when you depend on evidence from any type of reading resource to support you, or your audence, better understand something or someone.
Let's view this video and further discuss TDA's.
https://youtu.be/DH5Ez9fazXU?si=uB08OdDek07QOsuT
The video mentions that you will need to cite the source (text) that you are getting evidence (proof) from. You do this according to the type of text, and parts of that text, you intend to use. A common way to cite evidence from a text is to include the title of text, author, page number, line number).
Lesson Two: Citing Evidence and Creating Inferences
Inferences - Using your background knowledge and what you've learned to create a logical analysis (educated guess).
Let's practice this lesson together:
https://quizizz.com/embed/presentation/6079940110a7e9001b3cbd84
Formative Assessment:
Let's play a game to find out what you know about using text evidence make inferences.
https://quizizz.com/embed/quiz/5f767b266c476f001b43a797