Writing is thinking made public.

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Writing is thinking made public.
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Short answer extended response questions

• Why do you think students across the state are
  having difficulties with these types of
  questions?
• Share with someone next to you.

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Some of my own thoughts

• Stamina
• One grade level, 4 different content area
  teachers, 4 different techniques for
  short-answer/extended response questions
• Fitting low stakes writingin across the curriculum

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• Extended Response and Short Answer Assistance!

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• 2 Points 2 Actions
• This means I need to do 2 things!

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• 4 Points 4 Actions
• This means I must do _____things!

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Short Answer Box-It-Baby Setup

























Explain or Show
Justify (Support)
Write a Your Answer In Words Here
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• Use two pieces of information from the passage to
  explain how the Indians showed care and respect
  for the cedar trees.
• Write your answer in the Answer Document. (2
  points)
• Create the box you would use to answer this
  question.

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Explain
Explain
How the Indians showed care and respect.
How the Indians showed care and respect.
Write a Paragraph Summary Here
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Predict
Support
Her attitude toward her future.
Your answer with specific details.
Write a Paragraph Summary Here
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How Would You Grade This?
Grade 0 1 2
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What should a Short Answer (2 Point) Response
Look Like?
Grade 0 1 2
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What should a Short Answer (2 Point) Response
Look Like?
Grade 0 1 2
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Lets Do This One On Our Own!

• Read Page 170 in your textbook. On your answer
  document, identify two beliefs that influenced
  China during the Zhou period then describe each
  belief.
• Is this a 2 or 4 point question?

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How Should it Look?
Identify
Identify
Daoism is one belief.
Legalism is one belief.
Describe
Describe
Daoism stressed living in harmony with the Dao,
the guiding force of all reality
Legalism is the belief that people were bad by
nature and needed to be controlled.
Write a Paragraph Summary Here
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Final Countdown-Summary Strategy 7

• Using the Final Countdown template, write the
  three most important things they learned about
  the topic.
• On the second tier of the Final Countdown, write
  two questions you still have about the topic.
• Finally, on the top tier of the Final Countdown,
  write one way in which what you have learned
  relates or connects to material previously
  learned.

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Multigenre Writing Beyond the Five Paragraph
Essay

• Tom Romano
• Rather than summarizing learning in a report or
  term paper, students demonstrate their learning
  on a subject through multiple genres.
• Content area appropriate!

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Topic

• Choose a professional issue, problem, or concern
  that you are particularly.
• Turn this issue into a question try to start
  with words like, how, why, or what if.
• Use your question to guide your research.

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Product

• You will produce at least five genres to
  demonstrate your learning.
• Example Researching a life? Create birth
  certificates, interviews, or wedding licenses

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Your project will contain

• Prologue Why did you choose this topic?
• Table of Contents Titles of pieces and all other
  included content (prologue, bibliography, notes
  page, bibliography, and self-reflection letter).
• Notes Page What inspired you to create each
  genre?
• Bibliography (APA style) all resources used must
  be documented

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Project

• Self-reflection letter Addressed to me detailing
  how you feel about your project and what you
  learned.
• Use a repented if possible! This helps tie the
  different pieces together. Explain it on your
  table of contents page.

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My example

• Multiple Sclerosis
• Repetend Medical terms
• Genres poetry, narratives, doctors memos,
  wedding invitation

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Vanity Plates Summary Strategy 8

• Assign a topic of study (multigenre projects)
• Have students take on the role of the topic by
  telling them, "Pretend you are X."
• Students will then create a vanity plate related
  to the topic of study. In many states, license
  plates may have up to 8 characters. However, you
  may use as many characters as you feel necessary.

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Shaping Up-Summary Strategy 9

• In the upper left-hand corner, "The Heart," write
  one thing that you loved learning about from
  todays workshop.
• In the upper right-hand corner, "The Square,"
  write four things that you feel are important
  concepts from the workshop. One concept should be
  placed in each corner.
• In the lower left-hand corner, "The Triangle,"
  write the three most important facts they learned
  from the workshop. One fact should go in each
  corner.
• In the lower right-hand corner, "The Circle,"
  write one, all-encompassing (global- like the
  circle) statement that summarizes all of the
  important concepts and facts learned in the
  workshop.

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Thank you so much for sharing today with me!

• Please e-mail with questions, comments, and
  concerns. Invite me into your classroom!
• lgkrug_at_kent.edu