Writing for Understanding: Common Core Writing in the Primary Grades

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

everywritevt@aol.com

Joey HawkinsEducational Consultant

joeylornell@gmail.com

www.vermontwritingcollaborative.org

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