Common Core Writing

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

Narrative writing is not taught in Common Core.

All narrative writing will be a Prose Constructed Response (PCR).

Students will no longer write stories.

Fact or Fiction?

Fiction

Fiction

Fiction

Types of Common Core Writing Narrative

Opinion

Informational

Stages of Backward Design

Identify Standards

Assessments

1a, 1c, 1e, 1f

Assessment/Instructional Task:Prose Constructed Response

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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.

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1a, 1e, 1f

Prose Constructed Response Rubric

How is narrative

writing evident in a Prose

Constructed Response Rubric?

1a, 1c

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

TaughtBased 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 progression1a

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

standardDetermine what has to be taught based on the standard

and what student writing must look like based on the standard

1a

How Do You Assess Narrative Common Core Writing?

Identify Standards

Assessments

1a, 1c, 1e, 1f

Expectations for your grade level Narrative Common Core Writing Standard have been identified.

Grade levels will now analyze a Common Core Narrative Writing Rubric.

Common Core Writing Rubric

1a, 1c

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

How Do You Assess Narrative Common Core Writing?

Identify Standards

Assessments

This will be the focus of October’s Early Release.

Professional Development Reflection

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• Please leave your table group’s Reflection on Common Core Narrative Writing

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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