Secondary RLA Teachers will be taken through the Rater's Notes of the Released 2025 STAAR. As a team, we will dissect what makes an effective Extended Constructed Response. We will explore different strategies to address how to improve
- Introductions and Conclusions,
- Complete Answers,
- Using Evidence,
- Explaining how the evidence supports the answer,
- Expression of Ideas with purposeful word choice and sentence structure, and
- The overall Organization and Development of Ideas.
This session is intended to give each teacher a plan for the year that will help grow their students' writing skills one step at a time.