MATL Content Methods III : Secondary ELA

1.5 units

In the College and Career Readiness Standards for Writing, the authors note the importance of developing students’ abilities as writers, stating: “For students, writing is a key means of asserting and defending claims, showing what they know about a subject, and conveying what they have experienced, imagined, thought, and felt. To be college- and career- ready writers, students must take task, purpose, and audience into careful consideration, choosing words, information, structures, and formats deliberately. They need to know how to combine elements of different kinds of writing—for example, to use narrative strategies within argument and explanation within narrative—to produce complex and nuanced writing.” In this course, participants will be introduced to the key components of writing instruction . Participants will develop a vision for students’ writing performance at each grade-level, and work to deeply understand the three types of writing that are prioritized in an ELA classroom: Argumentative, Informative/Explanatory, and Narrative. From there, participants will study strong tasks and rubrics, developing a high-quality prompt and rubric to implement with their students in Quarter 4. The culminating Mastery Task for the module consists of a writing lesson that incorporates best practices and the Writer’s Workshop model.