Anchor Charts, Graphic Organizers, and More
The STAAR rubric explicitly states what the essay must contain; however, the TSIA essay--not the rubric--shows what the essay should contain.
From input standard, to process standards, to the product. There is always an input standard in the prompt. When you unpack and a prompt, it should be done at the top of a unit and referenced anytime a student enters into a new text, so they can see the throughline--continually attaching their comprehension of text (input) to the output task. It's not that our children cannot write, we cannot keep inundating them with acronyms when comprehension and analysis is the issue.
Keep it negative, neutral, and positive first and from there delve deeper into the context attaching voice, tone, and mood vocabulary, using text evidence.
