CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.6
The Standard
With guidance and support from adults, explore 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
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use simple digital tools to create and share writing with adult help. They add words, pictures, or recorded speech and work with classmates on a shared piece.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use a keyboard, drawing tool, or voice typing to create a simple page with support. The student can add words or pictures, save or share the work, and take turns with a partner.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think typing means pressing random keys or adding only pictures. They may expect the computer to fix every error or struggle to share control with a partner.
How to Assess It
- Ask each student to type one sentence about a class activity, add a picture, and save it with adult help. Have the student show the finished page to a partner.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Partners use a tablet drawing app to create one page with a labeled picture, taking turns adding the picture and words.
Ask students, “How did your partner help improve your page?” Record or write one specific example.
Play Keyboard Letter Hunt by calling out letters from student names for pairs to find and type.
Create a digital class book about school jobs, with each student contributing a picture and one sentence.
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