Writing Your First Module

Writing Your First Module St. Bernard Parish Public Schools Nicole Bower 8thGrade English Justin Burkhardt 8th Grade Social Studies

Challenges of the Common Core State Standards • The transition to the Common Core State Standards will create changes and challenges in all classrooms. • Some of these new challenges include: • Reading and analyzing complex texts • Rigor • Multiple genres • Using evidence • Speaking and listening skills • Overall higher level writing

How do we tackle these challenges and prepare our students for College and Career Readiness? Literacy Design Collaborative

LDC – First Impressions and Initial Challenges Initial Challenges for Social Studies • Integration with GLE’s • Overwhelming Initial Challenges for English • LDC Rubrics • Writing Styles

The Planning Process • Developing inquiry among students • Selecting an appropriate and engaging task • Using Module Creator as a tool • Locating a variety of complex nonfiction and fiction texts Determine essential question

What We Learned • Shorter, richer passages in the content areas to account for time • Goal setting and organization—students need to know where they’re going next • The importance of student engagement in task • The importance of scaffolding a task and modeling analysis of a text

Helpful Resources • Resources • Module Creator • R-Groupspace • Teacher collaboration across content areas • Instructional Strategies • Writers Checklist and Writers Notebook • LDC Rubrics • Annotations and close reading • AEC or any other writing strategy • Socratic seminars, debates, discussions

Benefits of LDC • Growth on standardized assessments along with a deeper understanding of material • Increase in rigor of writing based on close analysis of complex mentor texts • Increase in speaking and listening abilities • Student testimonials – Danton and Ambria

Writing Your First Module

Writing Your First Module

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