Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach
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Teach Your Students How to Apply Analysis Skills to Constructed Response
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Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach Workshop (G2-8)
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:
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Review foundational skills for application to Constructed Response: analyze and annotate source text, deconstruct the task
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Model the step by step process for both Short and Extended Constructed Response using source texts
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Create an effective response using specific tools and strategies such as paraphrasing and citing evidence from the source text
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Develop Key Comprehension Questions for use with a variety of source text - reading adoptions, stories, articles, science and/or social studies text
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Utilize the Framing Questions for literary analysis
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Evaluate responses using rubrics to target areas of weakness for focused instruction
How the day breaks out:
Part 1: Focus on Short Constructed Response
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Review foundational skills
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Introduce and practice the Step by Step Process for Short Constructed Response
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Model paraphrasing and citing evidence using source texts
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Examine how to use the Detail Generating Questions to improve the response
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Develop Key Comprehension Questions
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Introduce and Model Literary Analysis
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Evaluate a response using the Short Constructed Response Rubric to determine strengths and weaknesses
Part 2: Focus on Extended Constructed Response
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Compare each Step by Step Process to identify new learning
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Practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using a single source text
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Take it to the Next Level - Model and practice the Step by Step Process for Extended Constructed Response using multiple source texts
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Evaluate a variety of prompts/tasks to determine how to approach them
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Highlight inferential and evaluative thinking in response tasks
Required prerequisite: Background in Empowering Writers Informational/Expository 6 hour training recommended.
How to get this Training:
Individual - 6 hours with live trainer at hosted venue or asynchronously on your own time
Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach Workshop (G2-8)
$175 USD/pp - Registration Only (you already have the required Informational writing resource)
$300 USD/pp Registration with digital Informational HUB writing resource
$450 USD/pp Registration with the All In One digital writing guide. Contains Literacy Launch, Informational, Narrative and Editing Revising skills.
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- On-Demand PD (available 24/7 for 14 days)
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Main Informational Curriculum Guides Grades 2-8
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