Writing to Sources: Session II

Washoe County educators gathered again Tuesday evening for the second of a two-session inservice, "CCSS: Writing to Sources". The focus for these sessions is how teachers might better support students to use evidence from text and media to write opinion and informative pieces.  Over two evenings participants will explore the CCSS Instructional Shifts, Standards for Writing, instructional activities, and CCSS-aligned resources that support teaching and learning focused on writing to sources. 

This second session began as participants collaboratively reviewed their between sessions task (drafts a writing lesson using a resources from session one).  Participants then explored instructional moves to support classroom writing, engaged with the Nevada DOE and SBACC writing rubrics, drafted mini-lessons for writing, and read various published materials on how to better support formative assessment of writing. 

Materials for this session are linked below. 

• Presentation deck in PDF and Keynote
• Instructional Shifts for ELA/Literacy 
• 5th Grade Writing Samples (from In Common samples) for Opinion
• CCSS ELA/Literacy Anchor Standards for Writing
• From Reading to Writing: Super Annotator, Annotating for C - R - E
• Article, "Writing Revolution", Excerpted and Original 
• SBACC Writing Rubrics for Opinion (Grades 3-5), Informative (Grades 3-5), and Narrative (3-8) (from Nevada Dept. of Education Evaluation Guides)
• Writing Rubrics for K-3 
• Mini-Lessons to Support Writing 
• Informing Writing: The Benefits of Formative Assessment (excerpt and full report)
• Moving Away from Sucker Punch Grading excerpt