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Writing Prompts, Student Rubrics, and Sample Responses OrganizerWriting Prompts, Student Rubrics, and Sample Responses Organizer
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Writing Prompts, Student Rubrics, and Sample Responses

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Whether you are teaching mainstream, advanced, or intervention language arts classes, you will find something helpful in a thorough writing packet. It includes prompts, rubrics, responses, helpful hints, graphic organizers, and many additional tools that middle school writers can add to their reference binders or writing notebooks.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the writing process, Writing Prompts, Narrative Writing, expository essays, explanatory writing, argumentative writing, persuasive arguments, expressive writing, writing strategies, brainstorming, thesis statements, writing organization, writing structure

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Project either the sample responses or especially well-written examples from your class to demonstrate proper technique
  • Use the rubrics and scoring guides to model the assessment process for your class, noting the revisions in real time
  • Include the writing prompts in a list of daily journal topics for warm-ups, or assign the first draft for homework

Classroom Considerations

  • Based on a seventh grade assessment in North Carolina, but the skills and prompts are applicable to any middle or high school language arts class
  • Most rubrics include holistic scoring systems

Pros

  • Includes both blank prompts and sample responses for modeling purposes
  • Rubrics guide assessment for complete and thorough skill checks
  • Provides peer evaluation sheets for your class to edit each others' writing

Cons

  • None

Common Core

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