Are your students stuggling with understanding complex text? Join us as we explore strategies for students to enter the text, make their thinking visible, and discuss key ideas.
This is a great way to introduce, and reinforce, extended constructed response to your students using a hands-on strategy! Students will be reading and putting together an informational or fiction mentor sample for 5th & 6th grade like a puzzle! They will decide which cards are the best restate of the prompt, answer to the prompt, text evidence that supports the answer, evidence explanation, and conclusion. While they are putting it together, they will be speaking and listening to their classmates, discussing, sharing, analyzing, and learning visually and kinesthetically the essential organizational structure and parts of an essay. They will also learn the importance of transitions and how this makes their writing flow.
Reading specific: How do you approach lesson planning? What's your first step when planning to meet the needs of your different classes? Come learn how to pick a TEK, dive into a passage, plan a lesson, and how to differentiate it for your classes. Leave with a lesson ready for STAAR review!
Unlock the magic of mentor sentences with Jeff Anderson's Patterns of Power method in this engaging and interactive professional development session. Participants will explore the key steps of the Patterns of Power method through hands-on activities and collaborative discussions. Educators will practice using mentor sentences to inspire and guide their students in crafting powerful, well-structured sentences.
