Shifting Instruction to the Core, ELA Session II: Writing to Sources

English Language Arts teachers and their administrators gathered this morning for the second session of Shifting Instruction to the Core. Participants continued their focus  Instructional Shift 2 and Core Action 2 from their previous session, this time with an emphasis on writing to sources. The session included a reflection on teacher's classroom use of Keep It or Junk It, a review of Core Action Two and Argumentative Writing, a careful annotation of "The Writing Revolution", engagement in a lesson model for ranking evidence, and time to apply the lesson to their future lessons. Materials for the session are linked below.

• Presentation deck in PDF
• Reflection Note Taker
• College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
• ELA Writing Standards Grades 9-10
• Instructional Practice Guides for ELA/Literacy 
• ELA/Literacy Instructional Shifts
• Excerpted copy of "The Writing Revolution" 
• Annotation Guide: Annotating for Claim-Reasoning-Evidence
• Model lesson for ranking evidence & argumentative paragraph writing 
• Session II Instructional Moves