1. Writing for Understanding: Common Core Writing in the Primary Grades

2. Common Core Literacy: What are the key shifts in ELA?
1. Increasingly complex texts
3. Build Knowledge
2. Evidence matters

3. Foundational Standards
Common Core Writing in the Primary Grades
Common Core 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 by
specific 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.

4. Standards Common Core Writing Standards
2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and
writing to compose informative/explanatory
texts in which they name what they are writing
about 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.

5. Complex text What could working with
complex text and evidence based writing to build knowledge look like in the Kindergarten classroom?

6. Unit on Seasonal Changes Focus on how animals survive in winter

7. Variety of Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
Guided Reading, Shared Reading
and
Read Aloud
Some of it complex

8. What might the process look like?
Evidence
Elaboration

9. Focusing Questions and Focus Statements?
Evidence
Elaboration

10. Possible Focusing Question and Focus Statement?
Focusing Question
Focus Statement
How do animals survive in winter?
Some animals hibernate in winter.

11. Close Read Gather and Record Information?
Evidence
Elaboration

12. Close Reading

13. 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."
Examples of responses that draw students back into the text:

14. Evidence Matters How do animals survive in winter? Evidence
What 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

15. Many Ways to Take Notes

16. Simple Ways to Take Notes
Pictures
Objects
Evidence
Elaboration
Drawing
Graphic Organizers

17. Oral Processing ?
Evidence
Elaboration

18. To get ready to write: MOVE and TALK!
Small and Large Group Discussion
Acting,
Hand Motions
Oral Rehearsal

19. Practice Turning Notes into Sentences
Bears Hibernate log or lair
Frogs hibernate pond
“Bears hibernate in a log or lair.”
“Frogs hibernate in the mud by a pond.”

20. Write! ?
Evidence
Elaboration

21. Group Write

22. Individual Write
Scaffolded
“Chunked”
Elaboration in pictures

23. Complex text
What could writing with evidence from complex text look like in the Kindergarten?

24. Student work 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, and
writing to compose informative/explanatory
texts in which they name what they are writing
about and supply some information about the topic.

25. Writing for Understanding Addressing the Common Core Shifts?
Close Read
Gather and Record Information
Oral
Processing
Evidence
Elaboration
Focusing
Question
Write!
Focus
Statement

26. Common Core
Common Core Writing Standards

27. Presenters’ Names www.vermontwritingcollaborative.org Diana Leddy
For more information, contact:
Diana Leddy
Educational Consultant
Joey Hawkins
Educational Consultant