Teaching Through Text: A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructed Response (G2-8)
Teach Your Students How to Apply Analysis Skills to Constructed Response
WHO: Texas Teachers, Grades 2-8
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Required prerequisite: Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training
Suggested prerequisite: Empowering Writers Narrative 6 hour training
Objective: Learn how to apply informational skills to tasks that require students to identify and cite evidence from text.
6 hour course will:
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