How to Teach Students to Write Constructed Responses to Text-Based Questions

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So how do you teach students to write constructed response answers
to text-based questions?

Have you heard this term - 'constructed-response'?  The term is a relatively new buzzword for what we used to call open response answers or short answer essays.  And it means the same thing that they did!  A constructed-response essentially means a well-written multi-sentence answer to a question.  And typically in the world of education, those questions are based upon a knowledge students are expected to have gained from a text.

So how do you teach students to write constructed response answers to text-based questions?

Teach this 5-part response strategy that trains student brains to think about the most important steps in answering a question!

By using the mnemonic device with RACES, you are helping to increase students' ability to recall and retain information.  This memory technique will give students a graphic organizer to organize their thoughts in response to a question, a structured writing template to organize their written response to the question, and a strategy to check that that they fully answered a question!  And even better - RACES can be your rubric for grading!

Get my rubric HERE for free or grab the full resource HERE!

Happy & Healthy Teaching!
PEACE,
Miss Rae

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