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.
