Common Core State Standards Essay

The Common Core State Standards (2010) for writing in fourth grade address text types and purposes, production and distribution of writing, research to build and present knowledge, and range of writing. Students are expected to write arguments, informative/explanatory texts and narratives; develop and strengthen writing using technology to produce and enhance writing; engage in reading and writing from sources; and write routinely over different time frames.

In the text message and translation activity the teacher’s goal was to help students produce clear and coherent writing while including the important components of effective writing such as setting a purpose for writing, allowing choices in how and what to write, and addressing audience

First, writing standards 1-3 address Text Types and Purposes. In this assignment, students are being asked to write texts to inform others. The type of writing and the purpose is clear. Writing standards 4-6 address Production and Distribution of Writing. Students are being asked to take technology/text messaging language and translate it into Standard English. In order to do this “students need to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience” and “develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing” (NGA & CCSSO, 2010). The assignment does this. In addition, students are being asked to choose a favorite part of the story and use it as a basis for their writing which meets writing standards 7-9 that require students to build and present knowledge. Students need to have good background knowledge and comprehension of the story in order to do this. Lastly, writing standard 10 addresses writing range and having students write routinely over extended time frames where there is time for research, reflection, and revision to shorter time frames such as a single sitting or two for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. This specific task is a shorter writing activity that has a strong writing-reading connection with the