Common Core Writing Standards and Strategies That Support Them: Grades 6-12 - No. 146

With a focus on expository writing, participants will cull the CCSS writing standards for their application to content-specific writing genre. In doing so, participants will level strategy and expectation with assignments as they align with state and national standards. Planning of performance writing tasks will take central focus as participants learn to strategically scaffold in order to close grade-level achievement gaps, along with meeting the performance task expectations of the Common Core.

Course objectives:

• Understand and develop working knowledge about genre and CCSS expectations as they apply to expository writing.
• Apply new strategies for teaching and facilitating the writing process as it applies to content area writing and CCSS expectations.
• Plan and scaffold differentiated performance writing tasks.