Webinar | Strategies to Help Every Student Craft a Constructed Response Students at every level are expected to write about their reading. But without explicit instruction on how to weave together the inference with evidence and explanation, a polished, constructed...
Revise Ideas with Spider-Leg Sentences Learn how to encourage students to revise their writing with a strategy that makes revision fun. Included in this video is a full length mini-lesson from a kindergarten classroom where Kristina demonstrates how to add spider-leg...
Re-Introducing the 6 Traits in 6 Days with 1 Text Observe how Kristina Smekens re-introduces the Six Traits to a class that learned them the previous year. Duration: 105:48 | Grades...
Writing After a Close Reading A close-reading experience should culminate with an after-reading writing task. Kristina Smekens first defines three common task types. Then she provides strategies to develop complex tasks that could follow the reading of any complex...
Introducing the 6 Traits in 6 Days with 1 Text: Grades 6-12 Watch how Kristina Smekens utilizes the same mentor text to introduce the Six Traits over six lessons. Duration: 89:16 | Grades...
