WRITING


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Core Materials Grades 2–8


Next Generation Assessment Teacher Edition


Compatible iPad®


Compatible iPad®


Teacher Edition and Teacher Edition eBook are comprehensive, easy-to-follow, and easy-to-use. Instruction incorporates genre-specific characteristics of the six traits of writing for every step of the writing process and includes


• new, explicit next-generation assessment lesson plans.


• differentiated instruction. • daily and weekly planners.


• Common Core State Standards correlations and references at point of use.


• professional-development podcasts and screencasts.


Next Generation Assessment Practice gives students hands-on practice with interactive tests modeled on PARCC and SBAC assessments. The practice test for each CCSS text type consists of two parts, Close Reading and Writing to Multiple Sources, and can be delivered with or without scaffolding for students.


These tests are included with purchase of a Strategies for Writers classroom set and are also available for purchase separately (see page 53).


Sources include both


texts and videos.


Student Edition and Student Edition eBook provide student-friendly, self-guided writing instruction, presented in flexible lessons that can be completed in any order. To prepare for next-generation assessments and gain the skills they need for college and career, students


• write routinely for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences in multiple genres within the text types.


• analyze writing models by reading closely.


• write to multiple sources using technology.


• master the grammar and conventions of standard written English.


English Language Arts / Literacy Click the image to watch the video. PART 1 Instructions English Language Arts / Literacy


PART 2: Writing to Multiple Sources1 You will now have 70 minutes2


plan, draft, and revise your speech.3


to review your notes and sources, You may use your notes and


refer to the sources. You may also refer to the answers you wrote to questions in Part 1, but you cannot change those answers.4


Your Assignment


A town-hall meeting will be held to discuss plans to fix up a run- down neighborhood. Located in that neighborhood is a large empty lot. Your community is going to make a social decision about how to improve the lot. Think about the problems empty lots create5


and


your recommended solution that will provide the greatest good for most people (a community garden,6 a playground7 this topic.8


Speech Scoring Your speech will be scored on the following criteria:10


Continued Grade 3 Opinion Copyright © Zaner-Bloser, Inc. All rights reserved. Grade 3 Opinion Copyright © Zaner-Bloser, Inc. All rights reserved. a parking lot for area stores, or ). Your assignment is to write a persuasive speech on


Support your position with information from the sources you have reviewed. The audience for your speech will be the people at the town-hall meeting.9


Now read


your assignment and the information about how your speech will be scored; then begin your work.


1 Gives you information about Part 2 only.


2 Tells you how long you have to complete Part 2.


3 Make a plan for how you want to divide your time.


4 Tells you that your answers in Part 1 are final.


5 Refers to the first source.


6 Refers to the second source.


7 Refers to the third source.


8 Reread the first sentence to review the topic.


9 Tells you what kind of voice your speech should have.


10 Tells you which parts of your speech you should double check because they are important to your score. Tis is like a rubric.


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