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The Steps to
Writing an OER

2. Read the question and circle any key words in the question.
STEP 1
Read the question and circle any key words in the question.

3. STEP 2
Read the story and highlight or underline ALL possible answers as you read.

4. Make a list of ALL answers to the question.
STEP 3
Make a list of ALL answers to the question.

5. STEP 4
Choose the best possible answer based on depth of understanding and evidence available in the text that will prove your answer.

6. STEP 5
Write an answer to the question in a complete sentence. This will become the FIRST sentence of your response.

7. STEP 6
Explain your answer and give text evidence to support your explanation.
Repeat this step 2 time for a SINGLE STORY OER
For a CROSSOVER OER DO THIS:
Give two sentences of explanation and two quotes from each story that will support your answer.

8. Step 7
Revise and Edit

9. Write your final draft in the box.
STEP 8
Write your final draft in the box.

10. DEFINE:
Textual Evidence – ANY word(s), phrases, or whole sentences you use from the story in your OER. You MUST put “quotation marks” around all text evidence that you copy from the story.

11. DEFINE:
Commentary – your explanations, thoughts, opinions, etc. that you use in your OER to support your answer and explain your textual evidence. In other words, your own voice.

12. DEFINE:
Inference – a logical assumption based on observable facts and one’s own knowledge and experience. (An educated guess using a combination of facts and what you already know)