what is your student’s writing telling you?

In Common:Effective Writing for

All StudentsA Common Core Implementation

Resource for Writing instruction

Finding In Common www.achievethecore.org

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Discuss!

O How has writing instruction changed in your classroom, school, or district as a result of the CCSS ELA Writing Standards?

O What challenges do you face with writing instruction?

O How do you assess student writing to improve student writing?

A joint project of Student Achievement Partners and The Vermont Writing

Collaborative…

What is “In Common”?A collection of annotated student

samples K-12

O On Demand Writing

O Range of Writing

On Demand WritingUniform Prompts

Three Writing Types K-12Text Based – 2-3 class sessionsSimilar Prompts K-5 and 6-12

Purpose:O Highlight the developmental progressions in the

standardsO Build an understanding of grade specific

expectations

Range of WritingClassroom Samples K-12 to illustrate CCSS 10: Writing for a range of discipline specific tasks, purposes and audiences

Purpose:O BreadthO Ideas for integration

For use by educators and students…Several versions of each piece

Annotated

Not Annotated

Edited

“The pieces in this collection are meant to be a starting point for inquiry and discussion, not

a final destination.”

Protocol 3

 Overview: In this exercise, you will gain a better understanding of one aspect of the standards by color coding student samples that provide concrete examples of a descriptor or set of descriptors used in the CCSS. Many descriptors are used repeatedly in the writing standards. Attaching descriptors to actual student writing will help clarify what each means at a particular grade level.

Purpose: O To refine and deepen understanding of a particular aspect of

effective writing.O To become familiar with, and clarify, terminology used in the

Common Core State Standards.

Colorful Language

Let’s Practice Together!Go to Page 119 and read Narrative Writing Standard 3, descriptor b in bold print.

Read student writing sample aloud.

Then… annotate the student writing by finding and color coding examples of the descriptors you are focusing on.

Dialogue: RedDescription: BlueReflection: Green

ExampleAll The Roads to Kansas

I was six years old when my mother ran off with the pizza delivery boy. She sent a note in the mail to my grandmother that read, “Katie’s at home. Needs food and clothing. Jane.” Gramma drove the one-thousand-seven-hundred-twenty miles from Kansas to pick me up, pulling into the trailer lot in her blue, wood-paneled station wagon, slamming the car door behind her. I was sitting in a rusty hubcap on the from lawn, my chin cupped in my palm and my heart thundering wildly when she said, “Well, I’m here.”

Let’s Practice with Middle School

1. Go to page 117 and locate the grade appropriate Writing Standard for Narrative writing (W.3) Grade 7.

2. Read the highlighted descriptor for Grade 7 you are focusing on and what colors you will need. Dialogue: Red / Description: Blue / Pacing: green

3. Annotate the student writing by finding and color coding examples of the descriptors you are focusing on.

Protocol 3 Reflection

What did you learn from looking for the standards’ expectations in student writing?

How will what you learn inform your instructional practices?

Discuss ways you could use color coding to improve student writing….

Inspire and focus students with a vision of quality

workO Inspiring models of high-

quality student work make the goal clear.

O Rubrics are important, but for many students they are just a page of words until they can connect that rubric to a concrete exemplar.

Peer Inspired Revisionhttp://

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“Standards will never be clear until we know how it looks through student outcomes.” - Ron Berger, Expeditionary Learning

“If you don't know where you are going,you'll end up someplace else.”  - Yogi Berra

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Contact Information

Julie Joslin, Ed.D. Anna Lea Frost, M.EdSection Chief 6-8 ELAEnglish Language Arts Consultant919-807-3935 910-807-3952Julie.Joslin@dpi.nc.gov Anna.Frost@dpi.nc.gov

Lisa McIntosh, MSA Kristi Day, M.EdK-5 ELA K-5 ELA Consultant Consultant919-807-3895 910-807-3928Lisa.Llewellyn@dpi.nc.gov Kristi.Day@dpi.nc.gov

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