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For some students the hardest part of starting a creative writing assignment is generating an idea to write about. Here are seven good sources of writing prompts that you can share with your students. The Imagination Prompt Generator randomly generates prompts for starting a fictional story.

During the TCRWP Saturday reunion, I was excited to attend Jerry Maraia's workshop titled, "A State-of-the-Art New Unit on Information Writing: Tools for Assessing Information Writing Alongside New Unit Plans, Mini-lessons and Expectations." It was only 50 minutes, but boy, did he hit that title!

Rigor. Text Complexity. Difficulty. What do these words all mean in the world of thinking? Teaching? Learning? In my last post, I wrote about a "take away" that I had from our ILA narrative scoring session.

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Groups and Organizations These links will take you to essential reading materials from the institutions and organizations behind Common Core. Common Core State Standards Initiative:This is the official site for the CCSSI, featuring information about the standards, news, resources, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.