TDA’S At BBES

(Text-dependant)  (Blue Ball Elementary School)

By Elise K

TDA’s are text-dependant questions that we do here at Blue Ball Elementary.  This helps us learn from exactly what is written in the text and also that we can put the answer that is in the text in our own words.  Also we do TDA’s almost every time we are reading a story from our books called “Reading Street” Books.  

These books are based on what week we are learning something and that helps us when we read these book in our classroom.   TDA’s really come in handy when you need an answer that you know that is in the text.

If you are ever writing a TDA question for someone else, you need to make sure that the question is IN the book (DEFINITELY!) because that what TDA questions are: Questions that come from the text.  This is also a good skill for trying to put other information from a story or text in your own words.

See if you can try to give someone else a TDA and see if they can look in the text and put it in their own words, but remember;  make sure that it is in the text somewhere!