This workshop guides educators through a structured, 6-step process to help students effectively respond to NJSLA-A’s writing tasks. Participants learn to deconstruct informative and argumentative writing prompts, craft thesis statements, gather and organize textual evidence, and construct well-developed essays aligned with state assessment standards. The session also emphasizes revision and editing practices that align with rubric expectations for reading comprehension, written expression, and conventions.

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• Lack of structured support for students responding to informative and argumentative writing tasks
  
  
• Difficulty in teaching students how to analyze, synthesize, and cite textual evidence across multiple sources
  
  
• Challenges in helping students meet the specific demands and expectations of prompts

1. Deconstructing Prompts: 

Educators will gain techniques for teaching students how to identify genre, text requirements, and the assertions in prompts, enabling a clear understanding of task expectations.

2. Strategic Evidence Use and Organization: 

Participants will learn methods to help students gather relevant evidence, distinguish between direct and indirect references, and structure their essays using outlines that align with thesis claims and genre-specific elements.

3. Rubric-Aligned Writing and Revision: 

Teachers will understand how to guide students through writing and revising essays that fulfill all rubric components—reading comprehension, written expression, and language conventions—maximizing potential scores on the NJSLA-A assessments.