In Common User Guide
Navigating and using the resource to improve instruction. 3-pg doc.
Annotated student writing samples illustrate the integration of content understanding and writing in the three types of writing expected by college- and career-ready standards, including the CCSS: argument/opinion writing, informative/explanatory writing, and narrative writing. This bank of annotated student work will provide a foundation for analysis and discussions that lead to a deep and nuanced understanding of the writing standards. In Common: Effective Writing for All Students, authored by the Vermont Writing Collaborative with Student Achievement Partners and CCSSO, offers hundreds of examples of competent, content-integrated student writing.
The In Common materials include two types of resources for each of the writing types.
Each piece has been transcribed as the student wrote it, with the same errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation as the original. Only CCSS Writing Standards 1, 2, and 3 were considered when selecting these pieces. Mastery of conventions (addressed in the Language Standards) was not evaluated.
Pieces are annotated to show their relationship to CCSS Writing Standards 1-3. Some annotations appear in the sidebars. In the sidebar annotations, exact wording from the standard is distinguished by bold font. Care was taken to use the exact wording of the standard where possible. More extensive commentary is available in a box at the end of each piece.
There are at least two versions of the same piece in each file. The first is annotated and includes commentary designed to help educators better understand how the features of the piece relate to the descriptors in the standard. Each file also contains a version of the piece that has been transcribed, but not annotated.
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Navigating and using the resource to improve instruction. 3-pg doc.