A key shift in instruction, called for by the Common Core and college and career readiness standards, is the focus on students' abilities to use evidence from texts to inform their writing. Applying the Standards: Evidence-Based Writing provides students

A key shift in instruction, called for by the Common Core and college and career readiness standards, is the focus on students' abilities to use evidence from texts to inform their writing. Applying the Standards: Evidence-Based Writing provides students with the practice they need to make a reading-writing connection. The exercises, based on literary and informational texts and prompts paired with graphic organizers, will encourage higher-level thinking and thoughtful writing. Also included in this book is a Common Core alignment chart, a writing assessment rubric, a student writing checklist, a five-page writing process packet, and an answer key for easy planning and implementation.

Evidence-Based Writing for grade 3 offers 64 pages of writing practice and prompts. It is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and includes a writing rubric, a student writing checklist, a five-page writing process practice packet, and pages of writing prompts to encourage higher-level thinking and thoughtful writing. Each writing prompt is paired with a graphic organizer to help students plan, research, and prewrite. Specific writing types taught are opinion/argumentative, informative/explanatory, narrative, and research writing. Grade 3 writing prompts include active lifestyle, machines at work, endangered animals, literature, and the Trail of Tears. An accompanying online resource offers samples of scored student writing. The Applying the Standards: Evidence-Based Writing series emphasizes the reading-writing connection by requiring students to read and use facts from literary and informational texts. This is a series of six 64-page books for students in kindergarten to grade 5. Various writing skills are taught in correlated activities such as prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing writing. Of particular emphasis throughout the series are the Common Core State Standards and the teaching of evidence-based writing.