Overview
Can your ESL students meet the academic writing demands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)? In this academy, you will analyze the CCSS expectations for student writing, design writing prompts, and create formative assessment tools. The presentation includes demonstrations of ways to use various multimodal resources to facilitate practice in explaining, analyzing, and synthesizing information. You will also develop sample formative assessments to track students’ progress.
Who Should Attend?
ESL/ELD and content teachers, Grades 3–8 ESL/ELD and ELA curriculum specialists, focusing on ELLs
What Will I Learn?
In this workshop, you will
- analyze the expectations of the CCSS writing standards
- explore the writing demands for different text types and purposes
- identify and analyze writing prompt–paired (visual and textual) resources (e.g., fiction and nonfiction picture books)
- develop writing prompts, including choosing multimodal resources that address content topics
- create an appropriate formative assessment tool (e.g., checklists, rating scales, or rubrics) to assess student writing progress toward meeting a standard
About the Workshop Leader
Judith B. O’Loughlin, M.Ed., works with K–12 teachers, providing professional development and teaches graduate-level TESOL endorsement courses. A frequent presenter at TESOL, NABE, CABE, and CATESOL, her publications include
Academic Language Accelerator (2010) and chapters in edited books, including
The CCSS in English Language Arts for Grades K–5 (2014), which is available from
TESOL Press.