Description
This stack is designed to provide educators with the tools to create high-quality literacy instruction to improve student achievement in writing.
What You'll Demonstrate
You will demonstrate the essential components of analyzing, designing, and implementing literacy instruction through a variety of instructional strategies.
Who Should Apply
- PK12 educators
- Instructional coaches
- Literacy coaches/interventionists
- Education support professionals
Micro-credentials
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Analyzing a Holistic Rubric
The educator demonstrates the ability to effectively analyze students’ writing samples with a holistic rubric.
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Creating Text-Dependent Analysis Prompts
The educator develops text-dependent analysis (TDA) prompts that require students to analyze specific reading element(s) (i.e., literary devices, text features) and/or text structure.
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Designing Learning Progressions: Whole Class
The educator creates learning progressions as a tool for learners to self-assess.
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Facilitating Organizational Strategies
The educator introduces strategies that allow students to create an organizational structure that aligns to the purpose of the writing.
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Facilitating Prewriting Strategies
The educator facilitates specific prewriting strategies to generate ideas for writing aligned to specific tasks and purposes.
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Facilitating Revision Strategies
The educator provides instruction on the role of revision to help students move from a draft toward an effective piece of writing which aligns to their purpose.
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Facilitating Writing Conferences
The educator facilitates conferences with students to assist them in moving forward with their writing.
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Introducing Editing Strategies (6-12)
The educator introduces strategies that allow students to effectively edit their writing.
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Introducing Organizational Writing Strategies
The educator plans for introducing students to organization and its impact on a piece of writing aligned to task and purpose.
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Planning for Writing: Educator
The educator demonstrates proficiency in prewriting by explaining the relationship between writing task and writing purpose, reviewing prewriting strategies, and using a prewriting strategy to complete a piece of writing.
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Reading Like a Writer
The educator models how to read like a writer and analyzes two students’ ability to read like a writer.
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Selecting TDA Cross-Curricular Texts
The educator demonstrates the ability to select a standards-based, cross-curricular text to be used for text dependent analysis (TDA) instruction or assessment using quality selection criteria.
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Whole Part Whole
The educator models a writing task by dividing it into whole-part-whole and analyzes the effectiveness of this method.
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Writing Organization: Mentor Texts
The educator facilitates the instruction of organizational formats for writing by analyzing mentor texts.
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Analyzing Student Argument Writing
The educator analyzes student argument writing samples for strong thesis statements and supported claims.
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Analyzing Student Writing Samples
The educator analyzes student writing samples using a rubric to identify implications for writing instruction.
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Assessing Writers
The educator assesses students’ writing to determine students’ instructional needs at the beginning of the academic year.
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Facilitating Audience and Voice
The educator provides instruction on the role of audience and voice in writing to help students create a writing that aligns to its purpose.
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Introducing Prewriting Strategies
The educator introduces students to specific prewriting strategies to generate ideas for writing aligned to specific tasks and purposes.
![](https://carolinacred.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Literacy-Writing-73-100.jpg)
Teaching Character Development in Narratives
The educator develops a mini-lesson for teaching character development in narrative writing.
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Using Narrative Mentor Texts
The educator develops a mini-lesson to teach narrative writing using mentor texts.