Right now, most of you are in the final push for STAAR writing. In most of the papers I am reading right now, teachers are asking kids to give specific examples for their reasons. They ask kids to give an example from their own lives, from a book or movie, or from history. While there are other things to say about that, the problem remains that kids state those examples and that's about it. We tell them to elaborate and explain them fully, but the reality is that they don't.
What exactly does that mean...elaborate? Explain fully? And HOW does one do that? It's not enough to tell kids to explain so that Joe Schmo down the street can understand.
Explicit and concrete strategies help students know HOW to elaborate.
Here are my favorite go to strategies:
Five Whys
Prove It
Depth Charge
Pitchforking
Ba da Bing
Cafe Squidd
Starring
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