CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.6
The Standard
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use digital tools to draft, revise, organize, and publish writing alone or with others. They add purposeful links and media, respond to feedback, and update published work when information changes.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students create a clear digital text, organize it for screen reading, and add links or visuals that support the content. They use comments, tracked changes, or version history to revise shared work and update it after feedback.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think typing and changing fonts count as effective digital publishing. They may add broken or unrelated links, use visuals without labels, or let one partner control a shared document. Some treat the first published version as final and ignore feedback or needed updates.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Give students a short digital draft and one source. Ask them to make one tracked revision, add a useful hyperlink, and explain the change in a comment.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
In pairs, revise a shared document by adding one useful hyperlink, one labeled visual, and two tracked edits.
Ask students to explain in a comment why a hyperlink or visual helps readers understand a specific claim.
Run a digital editing relay where teams fix headings, broken links, image labels, and unclear revisions in a sample article.
Have students publish a school event guide, then update dates, links, and maps after receiving feedback from a student reader.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.6
The Grades 9–10 version of this standard.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
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