1. Approaching Writing in the NY Curriculum Modules
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2. Purpose of this Session
Participants will be able to
Identify the types of writing instruction in NY 9-12 ELA curriculum modules.
Use module materials to help students become better writers.
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3. The Foundation of Writing Instruction in the NY Curriculum Modules
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W : Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
EQUIP Rubric
CCSS Appendix A
What do these three resources tell you about writing instruction in CCSS aligned curriculum?
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4. Curriculum Implications
Writing of different types for different purposes
On demand and process writing
Extensive use of evidence
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5. Writing in Module 10.1
Read the final performance task for Module 10. As you read, notice:
What type of writing are students doing here?
How is this writing being assessed?
What writing standards are being assessed?
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6. How do the NY Curriculum Modules teach writing?
Form triads and assign each member one of the unit overviews.
As you read the overview, mark places you see students learning and practicing to collect and use evidence from text in their writing.
Discuss
How are students learning to apply reading standards to their writing?
How are students honing their ability to collect and use evidence from text in their writing?
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7. Try This: Teaching Students to Collect Evidence
Read the excerpt from Friday Night Lights.
Discuss the excerpt with a partner.
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8. What Would You Do?
RI : Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
W : Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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9. Look at the Lesson
Read the excerpt from Module 10.1 Unit 3, Lesson 13. As you read, notice how this lesson works with RI and W (a yearlong standard).
Discuss:
What are students learning about this text?
How did the decisions you made compare to those in this lesson?
What are some other ways this same skill could be built using this text?
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10. Tools to Support Evidence Collection
Models of evidence
Connections between and among texts
Scaffolds to key understandings
NOT a proxy for instruction!
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11. Writing Instruction in Different Curriculum Modules
Explanatory writing
Identifying and using evidence
Module 9.3
Writing to analyze sources
Writing as a product of research
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12. Module 9.3: Communicating Knowledge
Read Lesson 1. As you read, notice:
What writing standards are included in this lesson?
How are students learning to do the work of this unit?
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13. Teaching Writing Research
Highly organized deliverables and materials
Claim arises from the investigation
Leveraging peer thinking
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14. Reflection
How can you use the materials in the curriculum module to support your students to become better finders and users of text evidence?
What are the first things you’ll teach your colleagues about CCSS aligned research writing?
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15. Online Parking Lot
Please go to and select “Online Parking Lot” for any NYSED related questions.
Thank You!
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