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SESSION 2 | Grades 3-12 / ELL Levels 3-5 | HANDOUT
Write polished constructed responses
Write the answer/inference first
Explain inferences in writing.
Take advantage of a consistent formula.
Connect QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) to Yes, MAAM.
Photocopy the bookmark sheets back to back and cut them individually. Students reference the FRONT side when they are practicing BASIC constructed-response writing. Then, they use the BACK after learning the ingredients to a more POLISHED constructed response.
PRIZE: RACE bookmark | Yes MA’AM bookmark | CER bookmark
Scaffold practice opportunities.
Google Slide | Make the inference and use the details to write the response.
Write the 1st sentence
Restate key words.
Write the 2nd & 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.
American Colonist Resources
Return to previous Inference Silhouettes to convert them into constructed responses.
Insert elaboration
Connect elaboration to the Thinking Voice.
Readers comment on their own evidence and pump up their writing.
Introduce students to the different ways
to elaborate on a text detail.
Provide students with a “cheat sheet”
of ways to elaborate.
Readers blend evidence and elaboration.
Basic Formula
Black & White PDF | Google Slide | Jamboard
Green & Yellow PDF | Google Slide | Jamboard
With Elaboration
Black & White PDF | Google Slide | Jamboard
Green & Yellow PDF | Google Slide | Jamboard