5 ESSENTIAL steps for a creating a super successful STAAR Writing Workshop in your district, school, and classroom.
Step 1: Unpack and explain the assessment rules in a FUN and engaging way "STARR Writing Rubrics made fun, if that is possible"! Show student samples/anchor papers and explicitly/directly connect students' writing with the STARR scoring guides!
Step 2: Make writing a blast, Everyone is a writer when inspired! Nothing kills the love of writing like mind numbing test prep. THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX! Big Ideas! Example 1: One, Two or Three full days every semester should be dedicated to creating a writing/writers convention (THINK Comic-Con). Example 2: Create an à la carte writing seminar day where students get to choose their writing PD! Example 3: Your ideas...
Step 3: Create a school that values, teaches and promotes academic listening and oracy first and foremost! Oracy the ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech at a high level.
Step 4: Create student friendly writing memory aids: mnemonic songs/chants, checklists, charts, checklist, rubrics, and yes student inspired ideas. Lots of daily "bad/ineffective" writing practice when students can't remember key writing structures is useless! Perfect practice makes perfect!
Step 5: Create a judgment free writing zone in your classroom everyday all day! Let students write, revise, edit and publish written work with peers, teachers, and friends with a great abundance of encouragement and zero fear of judgment.
Step 1: Unpack and explain the assessment rules in a FUN and engaging way "STARR Writing Rubrics made fun, if that is possible"! Show student samples/anchor papers and explicitly/directly connect students' writing with the STARR scoring guides!
Step 2: Make writing a blast, Everyone is a writer when inspired! Nothing kills the love of writing like mind numbing test prep. THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX! Big Ideas! Example 1: One, Two or Three full days every semester should be dedicated to creating a writing/writers convention (THINK Comic-Con). Example 2: Create an à la carte writing seminar day where students get to choose their writing PD! Example 3: Your ideas...
Step 3: Create a school that values, teaches and promotes academic listening and oracy first and foremost! Oracy the ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech at a high level.
Step 4: Create student friendly writing memory aids: mnemonic songs/chants, checklists, charts, checklist, rubrics, and yes student inspired ideas. Lots of daily "bad/ineffective" writing practice when students can't remember key writing structures is useless! Perfect practice makes perfect!
Step 5: Create a judgment free writing zone in your classroom everyday all day! Let students write, revise, edit and publish written work with peers, teachers, and friends with a great abundance of encouragement and zero fear of judgment.
Rubrics
TEA scores TAKS compositions on a four-point scale, with one being the lowest score and four being the highest. We base the rubric on five criteria—focus and coherence, organization, development of ideas, voice, and conventions. We consider each of the criteria equally in the scoring of each composition. We use the same writing rubric will to evaluate TAKS compositions at all grades assessed: Grade 4 English, Grade 4 Spanish, Grade 7, Grade 10, and Grade 11 Exit Level. In all cases, the testing contractor trains scorers to consider the criteria listed in the rubric in a way that is grade-level appropriate.
Grade 4 English, Grade 7, Grade 10, and Grade 11 Exit Level (PDF)
Texas
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High School Writing Handbook - HISD PDF
all students are writing an expository essay, the content and format will be unique to the writer. ...Writing prompts often contain many details but little direction. It is ... Manual- These words and phrases are student-created; however, there are.
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There are three components to Writing Workshop: Mini-lesson, Independent ... Students may share new ideas, or a piece of writing they are particularly proud of. ... Text structure is the way in which expository text is organized to help readers ...
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not be able to write a perfect essay after completing this unit, the hope is that he or she will be ... 20(2).pdf Students have a hard time reading the handwriting, so having ... prompts from thesis worksheet or from list of past expository prompts-.
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all students are writing an expository essay, the content and format will be unique to the writer. ...Writing prompts often contain many details but little direction. It is ... Manual- These words and phrases are student-created; however, there are.
www.houstonisd.org › cms › lib2 › Centricity › Domain › First 25 Da...
First 25 Days of Writing Workshop English Language Arts - HISD PDF
There are three components to Writing Workshop: Mini-lesson, Independent ... Students may share new ideas, or a piece of writing they are particularly proud of. ... Text structure is the way in which expository text is organized to help readers ...
www.humbleisd.net › lib2 › Centricity › Domain › STAAR › WWS
4 Grade Launching Writing Workshop – Unit of ... - Humble ISD PDF
Grade Launching Writing Workshop – Unit of Study. 7/2011. 1. Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings. Essential Questions. TEKS/ELPS. Foundations of Writing.
digitalcommons.trinity.edu › cgi › viewcontent
STAAR EOC Expository Essay [9th-12th grade] - Digital ...PDF
not be able to write a perfect essay after completing this unit, the hope is that he or she will be ... 20(2).pdf Students have a hard time reading the handwriting, so having ... prompts from thesis worksheet or from list of past expository prompts-.
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Teaching Revising and Editing Skills - Texas Gateway PDF
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501 Writing Prompts PDF
Fiction, unlike a user manual, a magazine article, or newspaper editorial, probably won't ... Choose one of the expository writing prompts from the list below and ...
Classroom teaching activities: Opportunities for teachers to try the strategies in the classroom and think ... Select and carefully read one of the expository essays on Handout 17. Then ... Make time for students to revise and edit their writing during class, so you can monitor and support ... Readings/SL_2011.pdf. Handout (2 of ...
www.misd.net › language art › grammar in action › 501 writing prompts
501 Writing Prompts PDF
Fiction, unlike a user manual, a magazine article, or newspaper editorial, probably won't ... Choose one of the expository writing prompts from the list below and ...
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