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- 02/04/16 | Adjusted: 02/24/16 | 5 files
- Grades 7
- 02/04/16 | Adjusted: 02/24/16 | 5 files
Argument/Opinion: Range of Writing
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These pieces represent a wide variety of content areas, curriculum units, conditions for writing, and purposes. They reflect Common Core State Writing Standard 10, which specifies that students “[w]rite routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.”
Grade 7 student work can also be found in the "On-Demand" writing selection, which shows the progression of writing from grades 6-12, when students are provided the same prompt across grade levels.
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There are many ways that these resources can be used, including:
- Use one of the professional development activities at your next staff meeting or with your PLC. Activities can also be used to guide discussion of your own student work.
- Use the Common Core Standards to annotate one of the un-annotated pieces. Discuss your observations with your colleagues, and compare them to the annotated version in the collection.
- Analyze a span of on-demand prompted pieces in a single writing type (for example, 6-12 opinion pieces) to develop a clearer understanding of the developmental progression across grade levels.
- Look at a set of grade-level pieces in all of the three writing types and note the differences and similarities between the pieces. How, for example, are the argument pieces similar to the informative/explanatory pieces at your grade level? Which skills and techniques can be practiced and reinforced across writing types?
- Compare the "on-demand" prompted piece at your grade level with the "range of writing" pieces. What are the similarities and differences in writing independently from a prompt and writing that stems from classroom content and instruction? What does this imply for your practice?
