WRITING+STANDARDS

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Aug 19, 2011
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** To consider as you view: What are the major points this video presentation? ** ** Following the short clip, write a summary that delineates the speakers' three major ideas. **

= STRUCTURE AND GOALS OF THE COMMON CORE WRITING STANDARDS =

= ANALYZING THE STAIRCASE OF COMMON CORE WRITING STANDARDS =



Questions for discussion:
What skills are new within each grade-specific standard? What knowledge and thinking skills are implied as already mastered within each grade-specific standard?

PARCC MODEL CONTENT FRAMEWORK CHART PARCC Model Content Frameworks for ELA/Literacy, 2011 The proposed PARCC Assessment System will be designed to measure knowledge, skills and understandings essential to achieving college and career readiness. In ELA/Literacy, these include the following areas as defined by the standards:
 * Reading complex texts: This requires students to read and comprehend a range of grade-level complex texts, including texts from the domains of ELA, science, history/social studies, technical subjects and the arts. Because vocabulary is a critical component of reading comprehension, it will be assessed in the context of reading passages. Both close, analytic reading and comparing and synthesizing ideas across texts are expected.
 * Writing effectively when using and/or analyzing sources: This requires students to demonstrate the interrelated literacy activities of reading, gathering evidence about what is read, and analyzing and presenting that evidence in writing.
 * Conducting and reporting on research: This expands on “writing when analyzing sources” to require students to demonstrate their ability to gather resources, evaluate their relevance, and report on information and ideas they have investigated (i.e., conducting research to answer questions or to solve problems).
 * Speaking and listening: This requires students to demonstrate a range of interactive oral communication and interpersonal skills, including (but not limited to) skills necessary for making formal presentations, working collaboratively, sharing findings and listening carefully to the ideas of others.
 * Language use for reading, writing and speaking: This requires students to have a strong command of grammar and spoken and written academic English.

= QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER =

How could PARCC Model Content Frameworks guide unit design?How could PARCC Model Content Frameworks guide curriculum design? How could PARCC Model Content Frameworks guide building level articulation? How could PARCC Model Frameworks guide grade level assessments?

PARCC ASSESSMENT DESIGN

= LCD Writing Task Templates = The Common Core Literacy Standards clearly link reading and writing. In these two documents, the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), funded by the Gates Foundation,presents a set of task templates linking reading to writing as a response.

This document is a provides templates for all types of writing and clearly outlines the relationship of reading and writing as well as providing rubrics. 

This document contains templates for prompts but has no rubrics for scoring. 

INCORPORATING READING, LANGUAGE, AND WRITING STANDARDS The Common Core makes ELA classes responsible for the instruction of grammar and usage, providing a general scope and sequence for language progression from year-to-year.



Language skills are not mastered without practical application and should be embedded in writing across all disciplines.



COMMON CORE LANGUAGE PROGRESSION MATRIX

**Summarize main points of the Coleman/Pinmentel video presentation ** PARCC Model Content Frameworks for ELA/Literacy, 2011 
 * 1) Required mastery of three kinds of writing
 * 2) Analytical writing
 * 3) Rendering complex information clearly
 * 4) Student writing styles/multiple disciplines