Common Core Standards Writing
Common Core Writing In Action
The Common Core Writing Standards for Literacy require students to engage in disciplinary specific writing tasks. And for each type of writing, there are a number of skills that our students must learn in order to write well. To help meet these standards, LiteracyTA has created literacy strategies, student materials, and live trainings that put the Common Core Writing Standards for Literacy into action. The table below provides links to resources that teachers should use to help implement the Common Core Literacy Standards.
Standard
Literacy Strategies
Student Materials
Live Training Programs
Text Types and Purposes
1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of
substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
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Five Critical Questions
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Marking a Prompt
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Cause and Effect
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Problem and Solution
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Introducing Sources
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Integrating Sources
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Argument Map
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Summarizing a Source
2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
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Five Critical Questions
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Marking a Prompt
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Marking a Text
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Marking a Text Table
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Charting a Text
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Charting a Text Table
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Investigating Arguments
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Investigating Informational Texts
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Cause and Effect
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Problem Solution
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Compare and Contrast
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Argument Map
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Summarizing a Source
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Summarizing Say/Do
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Rhetorical Precis
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
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Five Critical Questions
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Marking a Prompt
Production and Distribution of Writing
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
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Five Critical Questions
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Marking a Prompt
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Cause and Effect
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Problem Solution
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Compare and Contrast
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Take-Home
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Timed Writing
5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
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Five Critical Questions
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Marking a Prompt
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Take-Home
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Timed Writing
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Peer Review Worksheet
6. Use Technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
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Email Communication
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating
understanding of the subject under investigation.
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Five Critical Questions
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Marking a Prompt
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Cause and Effect
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Problem Solution
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Compare and Contrast
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Take-Home
8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital resources, assess the credibility and accuracy
of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
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Marking a Text
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Marking a Text Table
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Charting a Text
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Charting a Text Table
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Investigating Arguments
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Investigating Informational Texts
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Argument Map
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Summarizing a Source
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Summarizing Say/Do
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Rhetorical Precis
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Summarizing Main Ideas
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Integrating Sources
9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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Marking a Text
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Marking a Text Table
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Introducing Sources
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Integrating Sources
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Starters for Synthesis
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Summarizing Main Ideas
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
