Where do you start when trying to teach writing? Start with the constructed response!In our middle school, we aligned the writing that science does for NGSS, which is claim, evidence, reason (CER), with one that would work in English. We follow similar formats, except that we built in a part where students explain the evidence that they’ve chosen to include. We call it CEER. While similar to RACES or ACES, we found that it was helpful to have a common writing verbiage across campus. This was, st