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Writing for Understanding:Common Core Writing in the Primary Grades
Common Core Literacy:What are the key shifts in ELA?
3. Build Knowledge
1. Increasingly complex texts
2. Evidence matters
Foundational Standards
1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.a. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.b. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language byspecific sequences of letters.c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.d. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Common Core Foundational Standards
Common Core Writing in the Primary Grades
Standards
8. With guidance and support from adults,recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, andwriting to compose informative/explanatorytexts in which they name what they are writingabout and supply some information about the topic.
Common Core Writing Standards
Complex textWhat could working with complex text and evidence based writing to build knowledge look like in the Kindergarten classroom?
Unit on Seasonal ChangesFocus on how animals survive in winter
Variety of Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
Some of it complex
Guided Reading, Shared ReadingandRead Aloud
What might the process look like?
?Evidence Elaboration
Focusing Questions and Focus Statements
?Evidence Elaboration
Possible Focusing Question and Focus Statement
How do animals survive in winter?
Focusing Question Focus Statement
Some animals hibernate in winter.
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Close ReadGather and Record Information
?Evidence Elaboration
Close Reading
Examples of responses that draw students back into the text:
"Let's look for that in this picture."
"Does anyone remember what word the
author used to tell us …?"
"Let me see if I can find that part so we can read it again."
"How do you know?"
"Where did you see that?"
"Help me find that part in the book."
Evidence Matters
EvidenceWhat the animals do to survive in winter.
Elaboration Where do the
animals hibernate?
Bears Hibernate
log or a lair
Snakes hibernate
mud
Frogs hibernate
by a pond
Bats hibernate
caves
How do animals survive in winter?
Many Ways to Take Notes
Simple Ways to Take Notes
Pictures
Objects
Graphic Organizers
Drawing
Evidence Elaboration
Oral Processing
?Evidence Elaboration
To get ready to write: MOVE and TALK!
Oral RehearsalActing, Hand Motions
Small and Large Group Discussion
Practice Turning Notes into Sentences
Frogs hibernate pond
“Bears hibernate in a log or lair.”
Bears Hibernate log or lair
“Frogs hibernate in the mud by a pond.”
Write!
?Evidence Elaboration
Group Write
Individual Write
Scaffolded
“Chunked”
Elaboration in pictures
Complex textWhat could writing with evidence from complex text look like in the Kindergarten?
Student work
2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, andwriting to compose informative/explanatorytexts in which they name what they are writingabout and supply some information about the topic.
8. With guidance and support from adults,recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Writing for UnderstandingAddressing the Common Core Shifts
?Evidence Elaboration
FocusingQuestion
Close ReadGather and Record Information
FocusStatement
OralProcessing
Write!
Common Core Common Core Writing Standards
Presenters’ Names
Diana LeddyEducational Consultant
Joey HawkinsEducational Consultant
www.vermontwritingcollaborative.org
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