Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach (Gr 2-8)

Teach Your Students How to Apply Analysis Skills to Short and Extended Constructed Response 

OBJECTIVE: Create both Short and Extended Constructed Response by applying specific skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text.

WHO: Teachers, Grades 2-8

WHAT YOU GET: 

This 6 hour course will focus on these objectives:

• Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task

• Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts

• Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text

• Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis

• Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction

How the day breaks out:

Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response

• Review foundational skills

• Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response

• Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts

• Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response

• Develop Key Comprehension Questions

• Introduce and Model Literary Analysis

• Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses

Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response

• Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning

• Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text

• Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts

• Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them

• Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks

Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.