Improve constructed-response writing
HANDOUT
Convert the last thought as a reader into the first thought as a writer
Provide direct instruction.
Take advantage of a consistent formula.
Click play button to learn how QAR connects to Yes, MA’AM.
Grow an anchor chart.
Anchor Chart Pieces | PDF to print
Scaffold practice opportunities.
“Write” orally and with peers.
Google Slide | Make the inference and use the details to write the response.
Write the 1st sentence
Restate key words.
Write the 2nd and 3rd sentences
Support inferences with textual evidence.
Crystal Calloway uses these sentence starters during text-based conversation with her Bailly Elementary (Chesterton, IN) fourth graders.
Provide explicit instruction on how to weave the what, which, and where details into a textual citation.
Introduce evidence with blended sentences.
Write the 4th sentence
Connect the dots in a concluding statement.
Subway resources
Return to previous Inference Silhouettes to convert them into constructed responses.
World Series photograph resources
Return to previous Inference Silhouettes to convert them into constructed responses.
STUDENT GROUP 1: Inference Silhouette
and basic Yes, MA’AM response
STUDENT GROUP 2: Inference Silhouette
and basic RACE response
Insert elaboration
Connect elaboration to the Thinking Voice.
Double the ratio of evidence to explanation.
Basic Formula
Black & White PDF | Google Slide | FigJam
Pink, Green, & Yellow PDF | Google Slide | FigJam
With Elaboration
Black & White PDF | Google Slide | FigJam
Pinik, Green, & Yellow PDF | Google Slide | FigJam