Instructional Practices for Teaching Text Dependent Analysis

What will you learn?

This asynchronous series (with optional office hours) will focus on best practices for teaching students to deepen their comprehension and analyze text. The key to successful TDA responses lies in the instructional practices that are implemented. Teachers will work through an entire cycle of teaching, administering prompts, analyzing their own students' responses, and using the results to inform their continuing instruction.

Target Audience: 3rd - 8th grade ELA teachers

Act 48 Hours Available: 1 hour

Pricing: Free for BCIU member districts

$50 for non-members

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Apply

Apply PDE's definition of analysis to your lesson design.

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Write & Incorporate

Write TDA prompts & incorporate scaffolding practices into lessons.

Analyze

Analyze your students' TDA responses.

Select Your Pricing Plan

Please read carefully to choose the plan that applies to you.

*Note: The one-time, non-members purchase gives you access to all parts of this course:

Instructional Practices for Teaching Text Dependent Analysis, Parts One through Parts Six

Upon completion of Part One, you will receive the course link for Part Two. Upon completion of Part Two, you will receive the course link for Part Three, and so on.

FREE

FLEX Free

FLEX Free pricing is available to BCIU consortium subscribers only.

FLEX Free pricing is available to BCIU consortium subscribers, including K-12 educators employed by Berks County Public School Districts/CTCs as paid member districts under mandated services. Districts and CTCs include:

Antietam School District; Boyertown Area School District; Brandywine Heights Area School District; Conrad Weiser Area School District; Daniel Boone Area School District; Exeter Township School District; Fleetwood Area School District; Governor Mifflin School District; Hamburg Area School District; Kutztown Area School District; Muhlenberg School District; Oley Valley School District; Reading School District; Schuylkill Valley School District; Tulpehocken Area School District; Twin Valley School District; Wilson School District; Wyomissing Area School District; Berks Career & Technology Center - East Campus and Berks Career & Technology Center - West Campus, Reading Muhlenberg Career and Technology Center

$50

FLEX Paid General Pricing Plan

REQUIRED for educators not employed by Berks County member districts.

*Note: This one-time purchase gives you access to all parts of this course:

Instructional Practices for Teaching Text Dependent Analysis, Parts One through Parts Six

Upon completion of Part One, you will receive the course link for Part Two. Upon completion of Part Two, you will receive the course link for Part Three, and so on.

FLEX Paid General Pricing applies to any educators who are not employed by a Berks County public school district or CTC, including nonpublic educators, educators employed by out-of-county schools, educators employed by local organizations, etc. that are not BCIU paid member districts/organizations under mandated services.

Non-member educators who do not submit payment for courses will be removed from the course and are not eligible to receive Act 48 hours.