Real World Writing

HIGH SCHOOL WRITING EXIT PERFORMANCE STANDARD 1: Produce real world writing by using appropriate types, forms, and grammatical and mechanical conventions to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.

Transactive, Personal Expressive, Literary, Reflective, Writing-to-demonstrate-learning (e.g., open-response answers), Writing-to-learn (e.g., notes & outlines)

• Produce writing in a wide range of forms.
• Write to demonstrate learning across the curriculum.
• essays
• essay tests
• open-response answers
• Use a variety of writing-to-learn strategies.
• note taking
• outlining
• reflective responses
• response journals
• logs
• admit/exit slips
• Develop transactive writing (e.g. writing produced for authentic purposes and audiences) that:
• Engages the reader by using appropriate strategies such as background information, comparing and contrasting, relevant anecdote, etc.
• Develops a controlling idea that conveys a perspective on the subject.
• Creates an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context using signals (e.g. bullet, lists, layout, charts, graphs, embedded visuals).
• Includes appropriate facts and details using appropriate source documentation.
• Excludes irrelevant and inappropriate information.
• Uses a range of appropriate strategies such as providing facts and details, describing or analyzing the subject, narrating a relevant anecdote, comparing and contrasting, explaining benefits or limitations, demonstrating claims or assertions, and providing a scenario to illustrate.
• Provides an appropriate conclusion.
• Write personal pieces (e.g. personal narrative, memoirs, personal essays) and literary writing (stories, poems, scripts, and plays) that:
• Engage the reader by establishing a context, creating a point of view, and otherwise developing reader interest.
• Establish a situation, plot, point of view, setting, and

• conflict.
• Create an organizing structure.
• Include sensory details, dialogue, and concrete language to develop plot and character.
• Exclude irrelevant details and inconsistencies.
• Incorporate more in depth characterization.

• Produce a reflective essay that:
• Engages the reader by establishing a context , condition, or situation of significance.
• Analyses a commonplace, concrete occasion as the basis for the reflection (e.g. personal observation or experience).
• Creates an organizing structure appropriate to purpose and audience.
• Use appropriate conventions of the English language including spelling, sentence structure, paragraph structure, punctuation, grammar, and usage.
• Establish a smooth flow of ideas.
• Demonstrate the use of a process approach to writing across the curriculum.
• pre-writing
• drafting
• conferencing
• revising
• editing
• publishing
• Use criteria for effective writing to evaluate own and others’ writing.
• Purpose/Audience
• Idea Development/Support
• Organization
• Sentences
• Language
• Correctness

 

On-Demand Writing

HIGH SCHOOL WRITING EXIT PERFORMANCE STANDARD 2: Produce writing in an on-demand (90-minute) situation that narrates, persuades, or responds to a text, graphic, chart or real world experience (e.g., current event, performance, work of art) in the form of a letter, and article, an editorial and/or a speech.

Inquiry and Technology as Communication

HIGH SCHOOL WRITING EXIT PERFORMANCE STANDARD 3: Use technology to gather, organize, manipulate, and express ideas and information for a variety of authentic audiences and purposes.

• Apply a variety of strategies to develop writing that narrates, persuades, or responds to a text, graphic, chart or real world experience (e.g., current event, performance, work of art) in the form of a letter, an article, an editorial or speech.

• Use appropriate practices, procedures, skills, and strategies to access multiple electronic media and gather the information for specific purposes.
• research cd’s, Internet , electronic encyclopedias, e-mail, databases
• Use technology to organize and publish information for authentic audiences and purposes.
• Use electronic organizers
  • outlining, bullets, webbing (Inspiration), databases (Access)
• Determine best format for presenting information:
  • research project/document; Powerpoint, Hyperstudio, and/or other presentation software; web page; templates; embedding objects
• Incorporate technology throughout the writing process.
  • gathering information, revising and editing, presenting/publishing