SALTA 1st grade

Scaffold for Writing Text Dependent Questions Grade 1

Craft and Structure

RL.1.4 Identify words or phrases in stories or poems that suggest feeling or appeal to the senses. RI. 1.4 Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. mean? What is your evidence? • Let’s take apart this sentence. Who is “you”? Explain your thinking. • What does ___ mean? How do you know? • Any other phrases that are confusing? • What is the difference between (2 vocabulary words)? • Define _____. • Where is (an apostrophe) used in • What does ____

RL. 1.5 Explain the major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide range of text types. RI. 1.5 Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons, to locate key facts or information in a text. • How is this narrative different when the author used dialogue versus when the narrator just spoke / told the story? What do you learn when there is dialogue? • What is dialogue? How is it used in this book? • When there is dialogue, is the narrator speaking? Who is speaking? • Why are the chapters in this book? • What is (a word) written in all capital letters? • Do the illustrations match the sequence of the set? • Is the character good or bad at the end of the story? Why / why not?

RL. 1.6 Identify who is telling the story at various points of in the text. RI. 1.6 Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words • When does our author use humor? Why did the author do that? • Can you picture it in your mind? What helped you? • Look at the illustrations. What (common idea) can we learn about from them? • How do we learn the character’s name before the author told us? • Why do you think the author chose (character to be the smartest? • How do the pictures tell the story?

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