Writing

Welcom to the Writing portion of the Common Core State Standards! I hope you will find these links as interesting and worthwhile as I did. I have them separated into different sections: Teacher Resources, Activities, Videos, and Miscellaneous. There are some repeats, and some that contain information from other standards as well, but they are all interesting and informative. Enjoy!! ~Taylor Raschka

Common Core State Standards The Reading and Writing Project [] This website has various types of resources, from professional development, workshops, and resources for in class. The in class resources are amazing! There is direct correlation to the Common Core through Units of Study and student samples. There are how to guides, text sets, and lesson ideas, just to name a few! At the moment, they are working on putting up more writing ideas, so stay tuned!
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The National Writing Project [] This site contains a lot of information. Their goal is to help educators educate and reach more students in writing. To do this, they offer a lot of resources, from books to blogs to video clips, sometimes with student examples or links to other websites. There is information about assessments and upcoming events as well. Worth a look!

Read, Write, Think! [] I love this site! Not only can you find a lesson plan for literally anything that you could want, it offers a lot of other information as well! There are standard correlations, other resources, background information, extensions, how long the lesson will last, and much more!

Writing Fix [] This site works very well if you incorporate the 6 Traits in your writing curriculum. I have used this site often to help find more focused lessons for whatever trait we are working on at that time. Not only does this site focus on the Traits, but it also helps with teaching the writing process, mentor texts, and workshops, just to name some of what there is on this site.

Teaching that Makes Sense [] The author of this site did an amazing job at creating a local place with so much information! It includes lessons, strategies, ways to help students with high stakes testing, writing workshop, spelling, and much more!

Education Northwest [] A great resource for those using the 6+1 Traits in their classroom. This includes rubrics, how to guides, and FAQ, to name some!

South Bay Union School District Writing Rubrics [] Includes writing rubrics for different grade levels according to the Common Core Standards.

Smekens Education [] A “library” full of different ideas, activities, and lessons, not just for writing, but for reading as well. Main emphasis is on the 6 Traits.

~Writing in action: This is an amazing website! Each of the writing standards are separated into a table with different activities and lessons that can be done to meet that standard. For most of the standards, you have an option of either elementary or middle/high. When you are stuck and not sure how to meet a certain standard, this site is the answer you were looking for! []
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Read, Write, Think! [] Not only is this site great for lesson plans, there are also some amazing interactives that go along with it. These activities are linked to several different lesson plans as well.

Writing Fix [] I also wanted to put this in the activities section because it offers plenty of activities for the students, such as different types of prompts, printables, and other activities.

Strategies for Writers [] Strategies for Writers is a site that is friendly for parents, teachers, and students. This site include graphic organizers, mini lessons, and rubrics.

[] Offers various videos on writing, including a video by Lucy Calkins, lessons in writing, and also videos on reading AND writing.
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Writing to Inform and Make Arguments [] Short video describing the importance and reasoning behind the Writing standards.

Read, Write, Think! [] I had to put this site under miscellaneous as well because there are printables on this site that are worth checking out. There is also a great calendar site that informs students about important events with lessons and activities connected to it.
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Top 10: TeachingWriting in the Common Core Era [] This is a great short article on how to effectively teach writing in the Common Core.

Common Core: Teaching Argument Writing [] This is a short article where an Honors teacher explains how she uses technology to teach argumentative writing.

Common Core Connect [] This site is kind of a mesh of articles, activities, rubrics, and standards. It addresses reading and writing, and some of the other standards. There are rubrics for the Smarter Balanced Assessment for the different grade bans that I found interesting.

Sullivan County BOCES [] The reason I put this site on here (even though it is ALL ELA, not just writing), is because of the wealth of information! For each grade level, you can pick to “unpack” the standards, and more. There is also information and resources for 6 Traits, articles and information on the various shifts, rubrics, and a description of the various types of writing.