One of the toughest things for students to learn is how to respond in writing to text. The advent of text-dependent questions, Depth of Knowledge (DOK) questions, and the desire for students to think deeper have all combined for some pretty tough skills for young students to master. A coworker was scouring the Internet for a way to “do it better” and came across a simple acronym that has transformed our student responses.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/meghan-everette/responding-text-how-get-great-written-answers/