Come explore how pairing comprehension & response readiness standards can prepare students to self-monitor for understanding as they read. Leave with resources, lessons, and ideas to level-up your reading response with all texts.
Review the genres of our 2017 TEKS & discuss how the new author's purpose TEKS are being assessed in the different genres. Leave with resources, lessons, and ideas to support your reading workshop.
Come dig into how central and controlling ideas can be developed for authentic reading response that aligns with the ECR rubric. Discuss ways to help students develop their own central & controlling ideas with details, facts, and examples. Leave with resources, lessons, and ideas to explicitly teach idea development in writing.
As we have students practice the reading response format of the new ECR throughout the year, how can we give targeted feedback that grows them as writers? Let's talk about ways to quickly score student responses and then use those scores to make instructional decisions for small groups. Leave with resources, lessons, and ideas to leverage all that student writing as formative assessment.
Since the 3 TEKS tested in revising passages are also score points on the ECR rubric, let's explore how to reinforce those skills through consistent academic vocabulary. Leave with resources, lessons, and ideas to help students connect revising-their-own-writing and revising-others'-writing.
Review & discuss how understanding the vertical alignment of conventions helps teachers pinpoint TEKS for whole-group and small-group instruction. Practice using mentor texts for conventions imitation, and leave with resources, lessons, and ideas for adding in differentiated grammar instruction.
