Skill Descriptor: Establish writing habits and adopt personal writing tools.

Global Competencies: SASM, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Develop reader and writer identity
• Engage in writing every day
• Identify strengths and weaknesses as a writer
• Demonstrate commitment and perseverance
• Develop strategies for writer’s block
• Critically analyze writing tools and take ownership of those that are personally best suited
• Share and compare personal writing tools with other writers/students
• Monitor writing progress with writing goals

Skill Descriptor: Explore topics, styles, forms, and genres from a variety of diverse creators.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Understand that everyone has something worth writing about
• Understand that each writer has a unique style
• Use a writing tool (e.g., journal, notebook, list, etc.) to track ideas for potential writing topics
• Understand the key elements of different genres and how they fit with personal writing identity

Skill Descriptor: Collaborate with a community of writers.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Participate in a writing community
• Understand the importance of listening critically and responding thoughtfully to other’s writing and ideas
• Share with, and give effective feedback to, the writing community
• Respect the importance of feedback throughout the writing process

Skill Descriptor: Study writer’s style, voice, and technique.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine various diverse authors’ style, voice, and techniques within particular genres
• Identify and value personal writing voice
• Compare and contrast style, voice, and technique of self and others

Skill Descriptor: Inspect the purposes and structures of a variety of forms.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Recognize the importance of audience and purpose
• Demonstrate a repertoire of writing forms
• Deconstruct a variety of text forms for structure and purpose

Skill Descriptor: Examine and use well-crafted writing to inform process, choice and purpose.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine mentor texts from a variety of genres through all stages of the writing process
• Understand the connection between reading and writing
• Evaluate how writers make informed choices regarding their writing
• Analyze writing to identify crucial choices authors make to provide clarity and enhance meaning

Skill Descriptor: Create with purpose and understand the influence of the writer/creator.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Develop a specific topic with a main idea/thesis that captures the purpose and audience
• Sustain focus throughout
• Develop original, thoughtful, and compelling ideas to support meaning

Skill Descriptor: Select an appropriate form and use an engaging introduction that includes the purpose.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Include purposeful paragraphing with skillful transitions between elements where required
• Craft a purposeful structure to present details that support the main idea
• Vary internal structure and features to enhance interest while maintaining control
• Impact the reader with a dynamic and effective introduction and conclusion where appropriate

Skill Descriptor: Select interesting and domain-specific words and phrases to convey and enhance meaning.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Use vivid and varied vocabulary; make effective use of words and phrases
• Employ literary devices to enhance meaning and impact
• Begin to use language judiciously; attend to parallel structure

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate evidence of author’s style, personality and experience.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Skillfully connect with the audience (e.g., communicate feelings, energy, individuality, sincerity, and/or convictions with appropriate tone for the task)
• Demonstrate commitment to the topic, sometimes by organizing content in a distinctive or unique way
• Reveal writer’s perspective as appropriate to the purpose, audience and context

Skill Descriptor: Include varied, well-crafted sentences to support meaning and readability.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Arrange sentences into fluid paragraphs where required
• Vary sentence structure and length for reasons of craft, including the creation of meaning

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate correct use of the conventions of the selected form with increasing sophistication.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate control of internal punctuation, grammatical structures, capitalization, and spelling
• Skillfully use the conventions of the selected form to enhance meaning, voice, and readability
• Use a range of text characteristics to enhance meaning where appropriate
• Reference all source content (including A.I.), using appropriate formatting and available technology

Skill Descriptor: Apply revision and editing strategies.

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Understand that revision means to re-envision the draft
• Recognize standard conventions and have a repertoire of tools to support the editing process
• Consider audience, purpose, and text form or genre during revision
• Perform close reading of personal writing to complete the writing process
• Create personal editing and revising lists that reflect strengths and weaknesses
• Understand that revision is an ongoing process

Skill Descriptor: Share published works with others.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Create a personalized portfolio of works informed by writer identity
• Determine the most effective platform to share published pieces
• Speak to the decisions made as a writer

Skill Descriptor: Research the publishing process.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine mentor texts for publishing information
• Locate contact information of various publishers targeting a variety of audiences
• Search out authentic writing opportunities (e.g., contests, learning showcases, guest blog posts, etc.)
• Understand that certain documents are required when submitting to a publisher
• Pitch an idea which could be submitted to a publisher

Skill Descriptor: Explore ways to maintain writing community beyond high school.

Achievement Indicators:

• Investigate post-secondary learning opportunities related to writing
• Research writing-related careers for a variety of forms, styles and genres
• Identify ways to connect with communities of writers (online, in person, etc.)