Region 18 Round-Up 2025: Learning Under the West Texas Sun

In this session, participants will Analyze the Extended-Constructed Response, Prepare how to have a conversation about the ECR in a way that promotes student engagement, deeper understanding, and a two-way conversation, and Focus a student's efforts on a specific goal that will enable them to take ownership of their writing.

In this session, I would be providing teachers with a visual strategy to help students understand what a controlling idea is and how to get students to memorize the two components required in the controlling idea for an informational text. This will help students understand what their extended constructed response needs to support and will give them a better direction with their essay. This visual will also aid them in constructing a claim required for the argumentative text. Additionally, we will break down what perspective words are and how they are crafted in both essays, and we will also study how these words evolve in STAAR reading question answer choices. Last, I will teach simple words students can use to bring in their explanations of their text evidence.  

Content-Based Instruction (CBI) prioritizes building students' knowledge first, followed by skill development. It encourages active engagement with texts, promoting deeper understanding and critical thinking as students explore and reflect on the content's meaning. Join us as we discuss the effectiveness of this approach in supporting students' overall reading comprehension using specific strategies for gifted learners.

Unleash gifted minds in a way that brings out creativity through poetry.  Join us as we explore tools to equip students to Read, Analyze, and Create Poems.