8th Grade -- Printed & Online Teaching Manual + Grading by Design™
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Designed for the 8th-grade teacher, this package includes the following:
- Writing by Design® Printed Teaching Manual
- Writing by Design® Online Teaching Manual (1 teacher license) for off-site planning and computer projection. Optional annual renewal, $100.
- Grading by Design™ online grading for unit writing assessments
- Free password-protected access to supporting documents and teaching resources
Teaching Manuals
Each manual provides step-by-step comprehensive lesson plans for instruction of genre-specific writing: (1) Personal Narrative, (2) Summary of Informative Text, (3) Informative: Classification, and (4) Argument.
Lessons are supported by:
- Rubrics
- Model Papers
- Introductory Six Traits lessons
- Pictorials and lesson references to Six Traits and Genre Charts
- Reproducible student handouts and worksheets
- Common Core Standards alignment
- “No Excuse Spelling” K-8 and grade-specific word lists
- Revision and Editing tools and exercises
- Supportive lesson resources
- Differentiated teaching tips for ELL and students with special needs
- Writing strategies
- Engaging beginnings and conclusions
- Figurative language definitions and examples
- Advanced Parts of Speech/Word Choice examples
- Academic language reference
- Authentic Assessments
- Lesson-specific recommended picture books
- Spanish-translated resources
Grading by Design™
Finally…Assessment software to alleviate tedious hours grading student writing! Powerful benefits:
- Student reflection and analysis to promote a deeper understanding of concepts
- Real-time student and teacher feedback
- Individual and class reports
- Aggregation of skill-based student responses (excellent teaching tool)
- Automatic class profiles reflect levels of proficiency and areas for whole-class or small group re-teaching
Steps for Ease of Use:
- Teacher selects a unit assessment for email distribution to students
- Students compose written responses to assessment prompt
- Students upload their written response and conduct a self-analysis of their understanding of concepts by selecting the elements of their writing that match rubric components. Students submit matching elements by copy-pasting them into the scoring template.
- Teacher verifies the accuracy of student-selected samples of rubric components
- Grading by Design™ software automatically generates the following:
- Teacher opportunities to comment on student work
- Whole class aggregated samples of student rubric responses
- Real-time individual student feedback
- Class profiles/reports
Writing by Design® uses recommended picture books, which are listed here.