Exemplary School of Writing Standards

Correlated to the state and national standards for writing, Writing to Win positions standards for journal writing, process writing and language skills as goals for administrators and teachers to reach. When 80% of your faculty shows confidence in implementing these routines, we feel that your teachers and students deserve recognition.

Exemplay Writing Standards

Phase I-JOURNAL WRITING

1.	Teachers prompt students to write entries that require critical thinking and address a curriculum objective (essential question, performance standard or daily skill).
2.	Teachers write and read their own journal entries aloud as a model.
3.	Teachers list expectations for each entry on a wall chart that is easily visible.
4.	Students self-assess their performance on each entry and record it in their journal.
5.	Teachers prompt students to share their writing.
6.	Teachers guide students in providing positive and constructive feedback to peers.
7.	Teachers use journal entries to assess learning and guide further instruction.

Phase II-PROCESS WRITING

1.	Teachers share their own writing as a model for their students to follow.
2.	Teachers list expectations for each step of the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading and evaluation) on a wall chart that is easily visible.
3.	Students self-assess their performance for each step of the writing process and record it in their portfolios.
4.	Teachers prompt students to write several first drafts and complete one final draft in a genre of writing.
5.	Teachers provide a Word Bank/Advance Organizer or other prewriting tools that require brainstorming and jot listing.
6.	Teachers and students use a Final Evaluation Form (or other rubric) to score final drafts.
7.	Teachers prompt students to research topics from across the curriculum.

Phase III-SENTENCE BUILDING

1.	Teachers have students complete a rewrite passage as a pretest of grammatical patterns.
2.	Teachers engage students in both oral and written practice of Sentence Building lessons.
3.	Teachers use visual, auditory and kinesthetic techniques to emphasize use of certain language skills.
4.	Teachers explain the grammatical pattern upon completing each Sentence Building lesson.
5.	Teachers prompt students to use Sentence Building strategies in revising their first drafts.
6.	Teachers have students complete a rewrite passage as a posttest of grammatical patterns.

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