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Text Supported Responses

March 23, 2013 By Tracy Tegeler 3 Comments

In my county for both reading and math, in addition to being tested with a multitude of questioning styles, the students are tested with BCR’s.  The acronym stands for Brief Constructed Responses.  An open-ended question is given and the responses are well-supported yet brief and graded on a 3-point scale.  This style of questioning is used primarily in the upper elementary grades.  (In second grade in the past we just used short answer responses.)  But our wonderful third grade teachers asked us to begin introducing BCR’s now and a checking and evaluating strategy they use. I have began working on them with my reading class and the highlighters are a HUGE motivator!!! Here’s how it works: First I bagged up a yellow, green, and blue highlighter for each student.  highlighters In order to respond to the questions asked students must: Answer the question (blue) Provide examples from the text (yellow) Connect their answer and examples with a possible personal connection (green) After writing their response, students use highlighters to check their answer to be sure they included the necessary parts for a complete well-developed response. We have been reading James and the Giant Peach as a read aloud.  So as a class we worked on answering the question: Would you want to have James as a friend?  Use the text to provide support for your answer.  We brainstormed how we felt about James, reminiscing on things that had happened in previous chapters.  Students then worked independently on deciding if they would want Donavan to be their friend from Donavan’s Word Jar.  I WAS SO IMPRESSED BY MY STUDENTS!! They did amazing! Here is an anchor chart I whipped up during planning when my brain was completely fried today.  image

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  1. Mandy Lopez says

    March 23, 2013 at 2:12 am

    LOVE this idea! We aren't tested on BCR's as far as state testing goes, but we use a program called MClass for progress monitoring where these responses are required.

    Thanks for sharing!
    Mandy
    The 4th Grade Journey

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  2. LadybugTeacher says

    March 23, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    I love this visual Tracy!!

    Reply
  3. Heather says

    March 24, 2013 at 3:20 am

    We have started doing these – we just call them CRAs (Constructive Response Assessments). There is a huge push for these in math right now. 3rd grade and up have been doing them for a few years and we have introduced them in K-2 a few weeks ago. We heard from our county that grades 1-8 will be doing these next year.

    Love your anchor charts!

    ✞Heather
    Swinging Through Second Grade
    hdawntn@hotmail.com

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