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Creating a Lesson Based on Shared Scoring of Constructed Responses Notes 3-5 Split into groups and come up with ideas to help teach this: Courtney Culley: Using a personal prompt and creating a gist answer Courtney Keefe: Using kinesthetic experiences to practice categorizing ideas (cards/pictures) ____________:Share three different gist answers for Times for Kids articles and see if they can select the right one based on details. ____________: Take previously done writing prompts, re-write gist statement.

Possible Resources: Use Better Answers for the **Gist Answers**. -Students need mini lesson and then a lot of application. -Somehow these lessons don’t seem to be transferring -We need to make it relevant for students. (Link it to why it is important) -Could we try vertical grouping? Not everyone is interested in that. -Some prompts don’t lend themselves to Better Answers. We need to provide solid reading/ writing instruction, not teach to the test. List of items and then students have to come up with the big idea. (Jan Driver has information re: this idea) Answer personal questions using gist (Look in the Better Answers book for ideas) For example: How was your weekend? What did you do after school? Our Lesson: Learning Target: I can determine the gist. This means I can: Hook: “What am I thinking of?” $10,000 Practice: Partners create their own lists of words with a category in mind. *Some kids might need some kinesthetic experiences with this * Independent: Share with peers. Have opportunities to match and group main ideas and details. Debrief:
 * General Discussions**
 * Ways to Practice Determining the Gist**
 * Categorize a list of words
 * Create a list with a category in mind