Teachers of 2nd Grade RLA will analyze the Rater's Notes of the Released 2026 STAAR. As a team, we will dissect what makes an effective Extended Constructed Response. We will start by learning how to teach students to analyze and understand the prompt.
We will then 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 help teachers map out a plan for the year that will help grow their students' writing skills one step at a time throughout the year.