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Writing for Understanding Study Guide
This free, chapter-based Writing for Understanding Study Guide is useful for groups of teachers or administrators who want to use the book for a multiple-week course of guided reading/study — an easy, helpful (inexpensive!) way to run collaborative professional development.
A new resource for schools or teams that want to use Making it Work as a professional learning opportunity. Called Teachers at Work, the companion to Making it Work, it is a chapter-by-teacher guide for PL sessions of about an hour. The guide is complete with all the materials needed for each session, plus explicit notes for the leader (and it’s FREE!)
Learn more about how to use the painted essay in your teaching. Get a PDF for your classroom.
These K–12 samples of authentic student writing, from classroom curriculum, demonstrate a range of proficiency in three writing types – argument, narrative, and informative.
Looking At and Learning From Student Writing
Student work is a powerful source of information for teachers about students’ content-and-text based writing. These K–12 standards-based checklists and rubrics for each type of writing will help teachers learn from their own students’ work.
Hundreds of pieces of annotated student work from around the country, aligned to the Common Core.