Common Core State Standards Narrative Writing 6-12.

Common Core State Standards

NarrativeWriting 6-12

Purposes and Outcomes

• Review the 10 Writing Anchor Standards

• Share Strategies

• Share Resources

Common Core Anchor Standards: Text Types and Purposes

1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

Production and Distribution of Writing

4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

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Research to Build and Present Knowledge

7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.


Range of Writing10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.


Three Text Types

• Argument/Opinion• Informative/Explanatory• Narrative

Three Types of WritingNarrative Explain/

InformOpinion/Argumentative

Elementary

35% 35% 30%

Middle School

30% 35% 35%

High School

20% 40% 40%

#3: Narrative Text Writing*The standards require that students be able to incorporate narrative elements effectively into arguments and informative/explanatory texts. In history/social studies, students must be able to incorporate narrative accounts into their analysis of individuals or events of historical importance. In science and tech. subjects, students must be able to write precise enough descriptions in step-by-step procedures they use throughout their investigations or technical work so that others can replicate them and (possibly) reach the same results.

6th • Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events

• Engage and orient the reader – establish context and point of view, introduce characters, organize events in logical sequence

• Use narrative techniques – dialogue, pacing, description, reflection – to develop experiences, events, and/or characters

• Use variety of transition words/techniques to sequence events

• Use precise words/phrases, details, and sensory language to convey vivid picture of experiences and events

• Provide conclusion that reflects on narrated experiences/events

7th

8th

9th-10th

11th-12th

Writing Strategies for Grades 6-12

• Authentic Writing

• Analytical Writing

• Mentor Texts/

Models for Writing

Source: K. Gallagher (2011) Write Like This. Portland: Stenhouse.


Authentic Writing

• Authentic purposes for writing

• Copies of the local newspaper

• Purpose behind articles

Source: K. Gallagher (2011) Write Like This. Portland: Stenhouse



Authentic Writing

TwitterEdmodoBlogsWikisTexting

Analytical Writing

Students interpret Griffith’s painting

The Surrender (See the next slide).


The Surrender

• Multiple readings of it are done

• Students share their thoughts



Analytical Writing

1. What does the painting say?

2. What is the artist’s purpose behind the painting?

3. What is the artist’s claim?



Analytical Writing

• Students analyze Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken”

• They read it four times

• Students explain the author’s claim


The Road Not Taken


The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claimBecause it was grassy and wanted wear,Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,


The Road Not Taken

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I marked the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.


Routine Writing

• Notes• Summaries• Learning Logs• Writing to Learn Tasks• Response to short

selections• Open ended questions• Dual Entry Journals


Long Term Writing

• Research Projects

• Analytical Writing

• Multimedia Projects


Narrative Elements, Grades 3-11

• Establish a situation• Organize a logical

sequence of events• Describe scenes,

objects or characters• Use appropriate dialogue


Narrative ElementsGrades 6-11

• Establish a context• Situate events in a time

and place• Develop a point of view• Develop characters’

motives


Grades 6-11

PARCC Rubric:

Written Expression,

Organization

Clarity

Introduction

Progression

of

Ideas


Grade 6-11 PARCC Rubric: Writing, Knowledge of Language and

Conventions

• Demonstrate commands of the conventions of Standard English

• Meaning is reflected throughout the piece


Examples of the Narrative Task

• Stories

• Historical accounts

• A series of events

• Experiences


• Students read one or two brief texts and answer a few questions to help clarify their understanding of the text(s).

• Students then write either a narrative story or a narrative description (e.g., writing a historical account of important figures; detailing a scientific process; describing an account of events, scenes, or objects).

Understanding the Narrative Writing Task

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• Range: Example of assessing literature and helping to satisfy the 55%-45% split of informational text to literature at the 6-8 grade-band.

• Quality: Julie of the Wolves was a winner of the Newbery Medal in 1973. This text about a young Eskimo girl surviving on her own in the tundra by communicating with wolves offers a story rich with characterization and imagery that will appeal to a diverse student population.

• Complexity: Quantitatively and qualitatively, the passages have been validated and deemed suitable for use at grade 6.

Texts Worth Reading?

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In the passage, the author developed a strong character named Miyax. Think about Miyax and the details the author used to create that character. The passage ends with Miyax waiting for the black wolf to look at her.

Write an original story to continue where the passage ended. In your story, be sure to use what you have learned about the character Miyax as you tell what happens to her next.

Grade 6 Prose Constructed-Response Item

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Conventions

• https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/high-school-writing-lesson-idea?fd=1


https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/high-school-writing-lesson-idea?fd=1



Resources

• http://engageny.org/resource/common-core-in-ela-literacy-shift-5-writing-from-sources

• http://www.parcconline.org/samples/english-language-artsliteracy/grades-6-11-generic-rubrics-draft


http://engageny.org/resource/common-core-in-ela-literacy-shift-5-writing-from-sources



http://www.parcconline.org/samples/english-language-artsliteracy/grades-6-11-generic-rubrics-draft




References

K. Gallagher (2011) Write Like This. Portland, OR: Stenhouse.

National Governors Association/Council of Chief State School Officers (2010). Common Core State Standards: English Language Arts. Retrieved January 11, 2012 from www.corestandards.org/the-standards .

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards

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