CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.10
The Standard
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write often for different tasks, purposes, and readers. They complete quick pieces in one sitting and longer pieces through research, reflection, and revision.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students write regularly in both brief sessions and longer projects. They adjust content, tone, organization, and revision time to fit the task, purpose, and audience.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat first drafts as finished work or assume every task needs the same tone and structure. They may also rush longer projects without planning, reflection, or revision.
How to Assess It
- Give students 12 minutes to write a response for a named audience and purpose. Ask them to underline one choice shaped by that audience.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set up prompt stations with audience, purpose, and format cards, then have students draft a different opening at each station.
Ask students to explain how a message about a late assignment would change for a friend, teacher, and principal.
Play Audience Switch by calling out a new reader every three minutes while students revise the same paragraph.
Have students write a customer complaint email, then expand it into a researched review with evidence and revisions.
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