CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.10
The Standard
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for 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 for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects 6—12
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students produce frequent writing for history, science, and technical classes. They complete quick pieces and longer assignments, adjusting format, evidence, tone, and detail for the task and reader.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can write a clear lab explanation in one sitting and develop a sourced history analysis over several days. The student plans, revises, and matches evidence, tone, and detail to the assignment.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every assignment needs a five-paragraph essay or that a first draft is finished work. They may also ignore audience, purpose, and subject-specific evidence.
How to Assess It
- Give students eight minutes to explain a provided graph to an absent classmate. Then ask them to list two changes needed for a formal lab report.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have students sort sample lab notes, historical claims, summaries, and reports by purpose, audience, and expected writing time.
Ask students to explain how their writing would change for a scientist, a city council member, and a younger student.
Play an audience-swap game where students revise the same paragraph for a textbook, museum label, or technical manual.
Students write a workplace email summarizing data, then expand it into a one-page recommendation using evidence from the same source.
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