Common Core Writing

1. Common Core Writing

2. Learning Objectives: • Identify elements of Narrative Common Core Writing based on standards • Analyze a Common Core Narrative Writing Rubric • Success Criteria: • Participants will identify instructional shifts for Narrative Common Core Writing based on standards 4d

3. Fact or Fiction? Narrative writing is not taught in Common Core. All narrative writing will be a Prose Constructed Response (PCR). Students will no longer write stories. Fiction Fiction Fiction

4. Types of Common Core Writing Informational Narrative Opinion

5. Stages of Backward Design 1a, 1c, 1e, 1f

6. Assessment/Instructional Task: Prose Constructed Response Prose Constructed Response At the conclusion of Chapter 6, students will be asked to write a cliffhanger to complete the story of Jack and Annie. Knowledge of volcanoes should be evident in the cliffhanger through the use of the completed Volcano Terms graphic organizer from Volcanoes. A rubric will be used to assess the application of student knowledge of volcanoes, as well as, integration of author’s craft into their cliffhanger. LACC.5.RI.1.1 LACC.5.RI.1.3 LACC.5.RI.2.4 LACC.5.RL.1.1 LACC.5.RL.1.2 LACC.5.RL.1.3 LACC.5.RL.2.6 LACC.5.W.1.2.dLACC.5.RL.1.1 LACC.5.RI.1.1 LACC.5.W.1.3a-eLACC.5.RL.1.2 LACC.5.RI.1.3 LACC.5.RL.1.3LACC.5.RI.2.4 LACC.5.RL.2.6 1a, 1e, 1f

7. Prose Constructed Response Rubric How is narrative writing evident in a Prose Constructed Response Rubric? 1a, 1c

8. Identify Your Standards:What do the Narrative Common Core Standards REALLY Say? Grade 5: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. a. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. What Has To Be Taught Based on the Standard What Student Writing Must Look Like Based on the Standard • Concept of a “reader” or audience • Creating a situation (problem/event) • Narrator • Character(s) • Natural progression of a story • Clear situation presented using author’s craft/style of writing • Point of view is evident, either through a narrator or character(s) • Story unfolds in a natural, logical progression 1a

9. What Does Your Grade Level Narrative Common Core Standard Require? Table groups will collaborate to do the following: Conduct a close read of your grade level’s narrative writing standard Determine what has to be taught based on the standard and what student writing must look like based on the standard 1a

10. How Do You Assess Narrative Common Core Writing? Grade levels will now analyze a Common Core Narrative Writing Rubric. Expectations for your grade level Narrative Common Core Writing Standard have been identified. 1a, 1c, 1e, 1f

11. Common Core Writing Rubric 1a, 1c

12. Table Group Activity:Reflect on Common Core Narrative Writing Reflect on the following: How might your instruction change after analyzing your grade level’s Common Core Narrative Writing Standard and Common Core Narrative Writing Rubric? 4d

13. How Do You Assess Narrative Common Core Writing? This will be the focus of October’s Early Release.

14. Professional Development Reflection • Tweets are always welcome! • https://twitter.com/OkCurriculum • Please leave your table group’s • Reflection on Common Core Narrative Writing 4d

15. References Benjamin, A. (2013). Big Skills for the Common Core. Larchmont: Eye on Education. English Language Arts Standards. (n.d.). Retrieved August 19, 2013, from Common Core State Standards Initiative: http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy