Education Standards
TDA example essay
TDA graphic organizer paper for first TDA
TDA rubric breakdown blank
The Body's Clock
TDA - Text Dependent Analysis
Overview
This presentation is used to introduce students to how to quote text when completing the text-dependent analysis response on a standardized test.
TDA - Text Dependent Analysis Writing Unit
Materials: copies of TDA rubric, TDA example essay, TDA graphic organizer, and The Body's Clock
Objectives: Students will be able to cite multiple examples of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Procedures: These resources are meant to assist you while teaching students how to write a TDA. The procedures below do NOT have to be completed in this order. You can pick and choose based on your students needs.
1. Discuss what a TDA is and what it looks like. Use the example TDA essay to help guide you.
2. Go over the state writing rubric with students. Have students break the rubric down into words they understand (there is an example of that attached).
3. Use the presentation to help your students understand how to correctly quote text within their writing.
4. Using "The Body's Clock" model to students how to highlight, annotate, and find words that relate directly to the prompt.
5. Using the TDA graphic organizer, model to your students how to clearly define paragraphs, restate the prompt in the introduction and conclusion, and gather ideas.
6. Choose a writing piece of choice and have your students go through the same steps that were modeled.
Evaluation
Students should be evaluated using the state writing rubric, or you can grade them using the rubric they created, (this would be more helpful when you give them feedback because you will use the rubrics they created using their own words.
*Note: There are more details on the documents that I have included. Instead of listing these in the procedures, I felt it would allow teachers more flexibility in making plans that best meet the need of their students. I like to start fresh with my students, even though they have been writing TDA responses for many years.