SALTA 1st grade

Scaffold for Writing Text Dependent Questions Grade 2

Craft and Structure

RL.2.4 Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. RI.2.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area. • What does ____ mean? What is your evidence? • Let’s take apart this sentence. Who is “___”? Explain your thinking. • What does ___ mean? How do you know? • What is the difference between (2 vocabulary words)? • Define _____. • What words signal time? • What words signal sequence? • What words signal cause • How does the author describe _____

RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. RI.2.5 Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. headings/sidebars/hyperlinks tell us about the story? • How does the story change from the beginning to the end? • How does the author distinguish between chapters/stanzas/scenes? • How is this narrative different when the author used dialogue versus when the narrator just spoke / told the story? • How does _________ explain what happened in chapter/stanza/scene _______? • How is dialogue used in this book? • Why are the chapters in this book? • What is (a word) written in all capital letters? • What do the

RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. RI.2.6 Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. • How does the point of view change throughout the story? • How does the author show ___________? • What is the point of view of _____________ (character/narrator)? • How is the character /narrator/author point of view different from your own?