Text Dependent Questions:

Text dependent questions require students to return to the text to formulate responses.

Using evidence and text dependent questions can be thought of as  “reading like a detective and writing like a reporter.”

Emphasizing the use to text dependent questions in the classroom in a effective first step in the shift toward the CCSS.

Text dependent questions can't be answered unless the student has read the text.

Information Sheet on Text Dependent Questions

Worksheet/Guideline on How to Write/Develop Text Dependent Questions