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
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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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LACC.5.RL.1.3 LACC.5.RI.2.4
LACC.5.RL.2.6
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?
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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