Constructed Response - A Step by Step Approach

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:

• 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.

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.

• Jan. 15, Wednesday - In-Person, Channelview TX, La Quinta Inn & Suites
• Jan. 16, Thursday - In-Person, Channelview TX, La Quinta Inn & Suites
  
• Jan. 23, Thurs. - Live Zoom
• Jan. 30, Thurs. - In-Person, Foxborough MA
  
• Feb. 12, Wed. - In-Person, San Antonio TX
• Feb. 27, Thurs. - Live Zoom
• May 15, Thurs. - Live Zoom
• On-Demand PD (available 24/7 for 14 days)
  

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