About This Lesson
With a focus on comprehension and deep questioning, this exemplar asks students to use textual evidence to analyze the title and themes of an excerpt from "Because of Winn Dixie." The exemplar itself is user-friendly, providing an overview, activities and daily tasks, a culminating writing task, examples of text-dependent and non-text dependent questions, and additional teacher resources.
Common Core Standards Covered: RL.3.1, RL.3.3, RL.3.4, RL.3.5, RF.3.3, RF.3.4; W.3.2, W.3.4, W.3.5, SL.3.1, SL.3.2, L.3.1, L.3.2, L.3.3, L.3.4, L.3.5