This document provides guidance for teachers on how to address common issues seen in students' written responses. It lists incorrect answers, lack of development, and reliance on generalizations as issues. It then provides strategies for teachers such as teaching active reading techniques, helping students locate specific details, and experimenting with different response formats.

1. Looking at Written Responses
Incorrect Correct Answer, Correct Answer,
Answer inadequate development good development
Answer does Answer shows Answer
lacks
Answer
uses
only
not relate to misinterpretation support
general
support
the question of text
Teach question Teach active Teach
scanning
Sort
general
Work
on
writing
attack reading strategies
to
versus
specific
style—using
strategies strategies locate
details
details
transitions,
topic
sentences,
conclusions
Teach Teach students
Question- how to make Provide
response
Answer- inferences frames
to
cue
Relationships Experiment
with
students
to
add
alternate
forms
of
support
response
Use discussion groups
and student-generated Rewrite to
questions to build perfection
confidence with talking
about text
E.
Kissner
2011