Interactive Student Workbooks

The Writing Job Comes Before the Format / Purpose and Audience Change the Response / Choose the Route and the Planning Strategy / Independent Genre Decision and Transfer

Understanding and Upgrading Thinking Levels in WHY and HOW Responses / Writing a Strong Thesis (central idea) Using TOPIC, CHARGE, and ANSWER / Using Evidence to Support Thinking / Writing the Explanation Sentence

Understanding the Structure of an ECR / Writing a Strong Thesis (central idea) / The Reason/Way Branch of the ECR / The Evidence Branch of the ECR Tree

Building the Full ECR / Hidden WHY and HOW Prompt Clues / Magnifying WHY Reasons into Topic Sentences / Proving Reasons with Evidence and Explanation

Building the Argumentative Foundation with Claim, Reasons, and Evidence / Turning Parts into a Coherent Line of Argument with Thinking / Understanding Others and Building an Evidence-Based Rebuttal / Completing the Argument with Ending, Significance, and the Full CREATURES Response

Balanced Evidence Across Paired Passages / HOW Responses: Similarities, Differences, and Relationships / Building a Conclusion That Finishes the Thinking / Color Coding the Exemplar and Controlling the Whole Paper

Decision Prompts: Claim, Reasons, and Evidence / Coherent Argument and Thinking / Understanding, Rebuttal, Ending, and Significance / Full CREATURES in Argumentative Correspondence for a Real Audience

Notice, Question, Speak / Voices and Responses / Evidence Can Change the Story / Informed Voices Create Responsible Change

Challenge and Question / Evidence and Choice / Action, Consequence, and Revision / Synthesis and Publication