In Common User Guide
Navigating and using the resource to improve instruction. 3-pg doc.
The In Common materials include two types of resources for each of the writing types.
- On-demand writing: The pieces in this set were written independently to a text-based prompt. Use them to more deeply understand each writing type at a particular grade level or to trace the progression of a standard from grade level to grade level.
- Range of writing: To be college- and career-ready, students need to be able to write for a range of purposes and audiences. To do this proficiently, students need regular opportunities to write –for extended periods of time and in shorter timeframes.. The pieces in this set provide some examples of what a “range of writing” deeply integrated with classroom content might include. Pieces are drawn from a variety of content areas and written for a variety of purposes and audiences.
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.