During Writing

During writing tasks are important for students to use in order to focus their efforts during writing. During writing strategies allow students to:

write a rough draft of a specific type of writing

organize their writing

focus on the structure and content of the writing

compare writing with pre-writing tasks

synthesize thoughts and content from pre-writing strategies

compare their writing with specific rubrics


Several during-writing strategies are linked below. The strategies are in these three categories of writing: Informative/Explanatory, Argumentative/Opinion, and Summary. The instructions are attached and many of them also have graphic organizers for students. If you need any assistance using these strategies do not hesitate to reach out to Crystal Parten at: cparten@csraresa.org

INFORMATIVE / EXPLANATORY WRITING

RAFT Instructions and Resources

RAFT

Role - Audience - Format - Topic

This document provides instructions, resource links, and a science and social studies example. This strategy could work for informative, argumentative, and narrative writing depending on the format.

Copy of Take 5 Reading Strategy

Take 5 Article Review

This resource can help students write out article, journal or chapter reviews in a chunked way before putting it all together with an introduction, transitions, and conclusion.

Grades 9-12 Lesson -- Informational -- Writing an Informative Explanatory Paragraph.pdf

Outline and Plan for Writing an Informative/Explanatory Paragraph

SIMS SCR Rubric

Example of a Short Constructed Response Rubric for Social Studies/Science

ARGUMENTATIVE / OPINION WRITING

Copy of CER_GraphicOrganizer1.pdf

Claims - Evidence - Reasoning (CER)

Graphic Organizer

Source: Santa Clara County BOE, Sandra Yellenberg

Copy of C-E-R Writing

CER Sentence Stems and Rubric

CER Rubric - High School History

CER Writing Rubric from NSTA

Sourcing: Rubric adapted by Kevin J. B. Anderson from K. McNeill and J. Krajcik, NSTA, and SBAC Argumentative Writing Rubric for grades 6-11 and from https://dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/files/imce/science/CER%20Rubric.docx

Grades 9-12 Lesson -- Argumentative -- Moving Evidence Gathering to Using that Evidence in Writing -- Confirming Thinking by Using Several Steps.pdf

Teaching the Process of Making Claims and Supporting them with Evidence

Grades 9-12 -- Resource -- Argumentative -- Argument in a Box Graphic Organizer.pdf

Explicit Directions and Graphic Organizer for Writing an Argument in the Content Classes

A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

A Penny for Your Thoughts:

Activity to Build Argumentative Writing

SUMMARY WRITING

Hashtag Summaries - Glascock

Hashtag Summaries

Modeled after the 1 word summary, this strategy asks students to write a summary and make it more concise until they can create a single hashtag line to summarize the text.

Capsule Summary - Glascock

Capsule Summary

Process Summary

Process Summary

RATT with Summary

Read Around the Text (RATT) with Summary