Writing Awesome Answers to Comprehension Questions (Even the Hard Ones)

by Nancy Boyles

Help students appreciate texts and write about them with conviction. Responding to a comprehension question is a surprisingly complex task. It draws on multiple skills: students must be able to read and analyze a text passage; consider what aspect of the text the question addresses; and then quickly and concisely write about their ideas, citing evidence to support them. Hence the prominence of constructed-response questions in standardized testing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324015918
• ISBN13: 9781324015918
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.7" x 11.1"