CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.6
The Standard
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
What This Standard Means
Students need to create a piece of writing using simple digital tools, such as a shared document, slideshow, drawing app, or class blog. They also need to revise, add visuals if helpful, type readable text, save work, and share it with others, with adult help.
Mastery looks like a student who can open the tool, add or edit their writing, respond to a peer’s suggestion, and publish a final version for an audience. Students often get stuck with logging in, keyboarding, spacing, deleting by accident, and confusing “decorating” with improving the writing.
Ways to Teach It
- Have pairs type a class animal fact paragraph in a shared document, then add one labeled image and a title.
- Ask students to write: How did your partner help make your digital writing clearer or easier to read?
- Use a checklist: title, complete sentences, spaces, one revision, partner comment, saved final copy.
- Show a school lunch menu or class newsletter online, then discuss how writers use digital tools to share information.
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