First Day to Test Day

What you’ll learn during this workshop:

• Demystify the inference process in order to answer comprehension questions about complex texts.
• Attack questions with test-taking tips to support finding the “best” and “most likely” answers.
• Define the ingredients to a strong constructed response.
• Propel students beyond simply stating evidence to explaining it.
• Identify a step-by-step process for reading and annotating multiple texts in one sitting.
• Dissect how readers integrate ideas learned from multiple sources to generate a new thought or synthesis.
• Provide explicit instruction on academic vocabulary to support students in decoding and responding to prompts.
• Build on the students’ knowledge of short constructed responses to generate long, extended responses.

After participating in the workshop, you will be able to:

• Target the thinking that students must execute when reading any text.
• Reveal to students that their thinking must also be communicated in writing.
• Advance students beyond making single-text inferences to generating multi-text synthesis.
• Raise the rigor to reading multiple texts and composing extended responses — all in one sitting.