Teach your students how to write a good constructed response and integrate grade level Social studies concepts with a Westward Expansion-based Constructed Response worksheet and graphic organizer.
What is a Constructed Response?
Constructed Responses are non-fiction reading and writing experiences connected to content in all subject areas and geared toward students in grades K-6. These writing opportunities are critical to assessing student understanding of nonfiction texts, and they are heavily weighted on standardized tests.
This worksheet integrates Social Studies and Writing concepts. This two-page resource consists of the following stages of writing development.
- Students will read a short passage about Westward Expansion and the many reasons why American pioneers traveled the great distance to the frontier.
- Students will then complete a R.A.C.E.S. graphic organizer to plan out their responses.
- Students record their answers as a constructed response paragraph and use a checklist to verify that all parts are included.
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To save paper, we suggest printing this 2-page worksheet double-sided.
Additionally, project the worksheet onto a screen and work through it as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks.
This resource was created by Nicole Ellis, a teacher in New York and Teach Starter Collaborator.
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