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: 

• 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 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