Elaboration When Answering Homework Questions - A High School Writing Worksheet
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Elaboration when Answering Homework Questions
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Elaboration when Answering Homework Questions
This worksheet gives examples of levels of elaboration in answers to the same history question. Students can analyze the ideas expressed in the answers to understand the need to provide full answers to assigned questions.
Elaboration when Answering Homework Questions
It is possible one of the reasons students can struggle with elaboration is a lack of understanding of how much information a reader needs or wants; this handout illustrates for students just how much semantic content most educators require at the middle or high school level.
Beginning with a comprehensive discussion on the vitality of elaboration, this resource then provides several answers to a Global History homework question, each answer progressively increasing in length and semantic content. Utilizing a provided rubric, students rate each answer as far as the complexity and number of relevant ideas contained within. They learn to differentiate between extra words and extra meaning, helping them grasp the need to more fully flesh out answers for homework and test questions.
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