Resources

Links
 * [|Addressing 3 Modes of Writing in the KCAS in the 21st Century]
 * [|Common Core Shifts in ELA]
 * [|Literacy Link focus on Argumentative Writing]
 * [|KPREP Assessment Blueprint and Sample Items]
 * Writing argument from K-12, grade progressions [[file:writing progression standard 1.pdf]]
 * Writing informational/explanatory K-12, grade progressions [[file:Writing Progression standard 2.pdf]]
 * Writing narrative K-12, grade progressions [[file:Writing Progression standard 3.pdf]]

Articles
 * [|"Constructing Arguments: 'Room for Debate' and Common Core Standards"] by Katherine Schulten
 * "[[file:21st Cent Writing.pdf]]," A report from the NCTE, by NCTE past president Kathleen Blake Yancey
 * [|Writing Instruction Should Model Real-World Use], Ed Week Article

Books
 * //[|Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading]// by Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke
 * //[|Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students]// by Sara Kajder

Videos [|WRITING SHIFTS IN THE COMMON CORE]: This is a 12 minute video which features a discussion between NYS Commissioner of Education John B. King Jr., David Coleman (contributing author to the Common Core) and Kate Gerson (a Sr. Fellow with the Regents Research Fund) addressing Shift 5 –Writing from Sources. By unpacking Shift 5, the discussion addresses the challenges and benefits of putting a renewed emphasis on writing from sources rather than keeping the current focus on personal narrative. After watching this video, educators might ask themselves: What is shift 5? What will this mean we have to change about our practice? What challenges will we face as we make this shift? A worksheet to accompany this video is available in both Word and PDF.

At [|www.teachingchannel.org] there is an extensive collection of videos of teachers in action. The videos range from teachers in action to PLCs and discussions. It is easy to search with key words like "writing" or "informational text."