Orthographic Mapping is the process of forming letter-sound connections
in order to combine and recall the spelling, pronunciation, and the
meaning of words. It is the mental process we use to permanently store
words for immediate, effortless retrieval. Orthographic mapping is a skill
that develops from phonemic awareness and grapheme-phoneme
knowledge.

This PPT presentation shares how our school is unpacking writing alignment at our K-12 school.

"ProWritingAid is the best free writing app out there. It includes a fantastic grammar checker but also goes way beyond grammar checking to help you improve the style and clarity of your writing.

The editing tool analyzes your text and highlights a variety of key writing issues, such as overused words, sentence structure, punctuation issues, repeated phrases, consistency, dialogue, pacing and readability. It helps you learn as you edit, making you a stronger writer."

There is a free version of this available that allows a summary report of key issues, including 19 reports. It edits 500 words at a time and can be used online.

Quill.org is an online interactive writing and grammar website which offers personalized grammar lessons for 1-12 students, as well as EAL students. Quill.org is a free resource with a premium option. The benefits of this website are that you can offer your students personalized lessons based on their diagnostic results and it scores the assignments for you so you can use that as formative feedback to assign new activity packs. Teachers are able to see their entire class at a glance for each assignment and adding and removing students is very easy. It offers co teaching options and Quill.org also has fully prepared lesson plans which you can use for a whole class grammar lesson.

*Teachers can download explicit lesson plans to teach their entire class or small groups as well.

Quill now has a proofreader that teaches editing skills by having them proofread passages!

Categories include: Connect (learn to write well structured sentences); Lessons; Diagnostic; Proofreader; Grammar; Reading for Evidence (teach comprehension skills)

These resources include rubrics for assessing communication skills as well as student exemplars organized into writing continuums.

This site provides the materials needed to support the provincial writing assessment.

Attached Files Include:
Eligible Students for Writing Data Collection
Writing Continuum 1-12
Writing Rubrics
Writing At Grade Level
FAQs for the Writing Outcome
Prompts Gr 1 - 12 with Context
Copyright Permission Form

If you have problems accessing this site contact stans@gov.sk.ca or 1-866-933-8333.

ind all the rubrics for assessment, the writing continuum, Writing prompts & FAQs about these resources in this file.

This resource is full of activities to be done before, during and after reading a play (at grade level!).

Shakespeare was meant to be seen and celebrated! The approach should be fun and engaging - and open to even our young students.

All activities can be edited to suit your grade level and meet your needs. Many of these would also make excellent book reports for any novel!

Generating Ideas:
Rapid Writing
Setting the Context (What Do My Readers Want to Know?)
Adding Content (Pass It On!)

Developing and Organizing Ideas:
Webbing, Mapping and More
Supporting the Main Idea
Adding Details

Revising and Editing:
Reorganizing Ideas
Asking Questions to Revise Writing
Peer Editing
Proofreading Without Partners

Writing for a Purpose:
Using Templates:
Writing a Procedure
Writing an Information Report
Writing a Business Report
Writing an Explanation

Posters for Instruction: Writing
Generate Ideas
Organize Writing
Revise and Edit

Author Lori Jamison - from literacyworld.org
Includes:
*Writing Milestones at a glance
*Things to write about for "shared experiences"
*How to write in Kindergarten
*A variety of writing strategies
*Writing Ideas Bingo
*Topic Tree
*Book writing
*5 finger planner
*Storm and sort
*3-2-1 planner

Focus
The continuum provides an overview of the writing skills, text forms, and strategies for each grade/course. The continuum is not intended to replace the curricula.

Content
The English Language Arts grades 1–12 compose and create goal is the foundation for this continuum.
Compose and Create (CC)—Students will extend their abilities to write to explore and present thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a variety of forms, for a variety of purposes, for a variety of audiences.
In addition, outcomes and indicators related to writing inform the continuum.

Format
The continuum, providing teachers with a grade 1–12 overview of writing, is organized into the following grade groupings: 1–3; 4–6; 7–9; 10–12.

This site provides (completely free) writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks - and some fun anagram vocabulary games.

Generate random story ideas, plots, subjects, scenarios, characters, first lines for stories and more.

The following is the .ppt presentation used to support developing writing plans integrated with writing at Sun West.

Both a short and long form writing progression for K-12. Very useful for seeing what writing should be done by grade level.

Developed from https://www.stf.sk.ca/professional-resources/saskatchewan-professional-development-unit/resources/english-language-arts?field_spdu_category_tid=281

Background:

The Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP) is a multi-year (2014-2020), province-wide plan developed collaboratively by the Deputy Minister of Education, the
Assistant Deputy Ministers, provincial school division directors of education, and First Nation Education Authority representatives. The ESSP outlines several outcomes. ( http://www.education.gov.sk.ca/educations-strategic-sector-plan-matrix-2014-2020)

The ESSP outcome that underpins the development of the writing rubrics is “By June 2020, 80% of students will be at grade level or above in
reading, writing, and math.”

Outcome owners directed a group of educators from divisions and First Nations Authorities to create holistic, four-level writing rubrics, Grades 1–12, with levels 3 and 4 being at grade level. The result of that work is the attached rubrics.

Content:
The holistic writing rubrics are available for all grades, and teachers are encouraged to use the rubrics at all grade levels. However, provincial
reporting of writing at grade level will be done for Grades 4, 7, and 9 only. Provincial reporting on writing (Grades 4, 7, 9) will be done once, at
the end of the school year.