Professional Development Options

Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach

Learn to confidently teach writing, improve student performance,
and maximize your instructional time

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)

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

How to get this Training:

Individual - 6 hours with live trainer at hosted venue or asynchronously on your own time

Group - School or District on your schedule:

Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach Workshop (G2-8)

$175 USD/pp - Registration Only (you already have the required Informational writing resource)
$274 USD/pp Registration with digital Informational HUB writing resource

Digital Format - The HUB

Printed Format

Click here to see an example Field Trip from the HUB

Click here to see an example Narrated Text Student Pages from the HUB

Click here to see an example of a printed
Informational Grade 4 guide

The Hub subscription includes:

Enhanced digital replicas of time-tested EW instructional materials
Professional development videos on the foundational skills taught by EW certified instructors
Skill Power! PowerPoints to introduce the foundational skills
New ways to engage students and appeal to every learning style

$99 USD
$155 with a second Genre guide (Narrative, Informational, K-1, Editing & Revising, Argumentative)
Subscription active for a year from date of purchase

These grade-level specific guides includes all of the foundational narrative writing skills and provides everything you need to be successful at teaching narrative, personal experience and response to text writing. Teacher background, detailed lesson plans, reproducible/projectable student pages, sample texts and exemplars are included.

$140 USD (handling fee added for orders outside US)

Your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Narrative digital teaching resources for an entire year of narrative writing instruction. The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Narrative guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online for a full year from date of purchase. wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online for a full year from date of purchase. Your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Narrative digital teaching resources for an entire year of narrative writing instruction. The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Narrative guide, along with a \Your Empowering Writers’ digital guide includes a year-long HUB license that delivers Narrative digital teaching resources for an entire year of narrative writing instruction. The HUB allows for easy, online access to your Narrative guide, along with a wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online for a full year from date of purchase. wealth of done-for-you resources and teach-it tools to access online for a full year from date of purchase.