CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.4

ELA6th GradeProduction and Distribution of Writing

The Standard

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students shape a piece of writing for a specific assignment, reason, and reader. They choose relevant details, arrange ideas clearly, and use a fitting tone and style.
What Mastery Looks Like: The writing has a clear focus, a logical order, and details that support the main point. Word choice, tone, and format fit the assigned reader and reason for writing.
Common Misconceptions: Students may use the same tone and structure for every assignment. They may add details that do not support the purpose or assume readers already know key information.
How to Assess It: Give students a mixed-up paragraph and name its audience and purpose. Ask them to reorder the sentences and revise one sentence to fit the audience.

Lesson moves

Give groups sentence strips from a short essay and have them arrange the strips into a logical order, then explain their choices.
Ask students to rewrite a school announcement for a principal, a close friend, and a first grader, then compare tone and word choice.
Play Purpose, Audience, Format Match by having students pair prompt cards with the best opening, organization, and tone cards.
Have students write a request for a real school improvement, choosing details and language suited to the person who could approve it.

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Learning progression

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