Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach (Gr 2-8)
Teach Your Students How to Apply Analysis Skills to Constructed Response
WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
- Instructional tools to analyze and annotate text
- Effectively deconstruct the prompt
- Locate and identify evidence to support your response
- Paraphrase and cite evidence in source texts (narrative and informational)
- Apply analysis skills to constructed response
- How to model the step by step process to a well written response
Workshop Requirements:
Background in EW Informational instruction is recommended.
Objective: Learn how to apply informational skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text.
6 hour course will focus on these objectives:
- Review foundational skills for application
- Use a sample text to model the process for constructed response with a single source text
- Introduce key comprehension questions for Informational and Opinion Genres
- Utilize the framing questions for literary analysis
- Model the application of the questions with specific articles or stories
- Apply questioning techniques to assess students' ability to understand foundational skills, identify and paraphrase/cite evidence, and formulate a fluid response
- Develop an extended response utilizing multiple source texts