Writing by Design / Grading by Design
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Product Details
- Overview
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Writing by Design / Grading by Design is a K–8 writing curriculum and related assessment/grading approach. It is designed primarily for elementary and middle-grade writers, with classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and students using it to support writing process, genres, conventions, revision, feedback, and common expectations.
Teachers use modeled lessons, shared language, rubrics, student practice, conferencing, and feedback to develop writing across genres. The product should be evaluated for the specific learners, instructional setting, and intensity of support a district intends—not simply as another source of digital activities.
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Audience and instructional role
- Grades / learners: elementary and middle-grade writers
- Primary users: classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and students
- Learning focus: writing process, genres, conventions, revision, feedback, and common expectations — a K–8 writing curriculum and related assessment/grading approach
How it supports learning- Teachers use modeled lessons, shared language, rubrics, student practice, conferencing, and feedback to develop writing across genres.
- Teachers should use the product within a defined instructional model rather than treat activity completion as evidence of learning.
Implementation and instructional decisions- Clarify whether Writing by Design and Grading by Design are licensed together or should be represented as related but distinct products.
- Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the role of teacher judgment.
- Company News
Grading By Design© is an innovative online web application that assists teachers through the process of evaluating student written work. Writing by Design® is proven-effective writing instruction for building competence and confidence with learners ofall levels and types in grades TK–8. With a foundation in the Six Traits of Writing, it establishes a common language across grade levels. With detailed lesson plans, rubrics, and daily model papers, new and veteran teachers can successfully teach state standards and Common Core writing.
Grading By Design© is an innovative online web application that assists teachers through the process of evaluating student written work.
Writing By Design© unites teachers and students together in a common purpose: excellence in writing.
Writing By Design© unites teachers and students together in a common purpose: excellence in writing.
This Common Core writing curriculum is designed to support TK-8th grade teachers to build capacity and confidence in providing sound writing instruction. With detailed lesson plans, new and veteran teachers can confidently and successfully teach narrative, informative, summary, and opinion/argument writing.
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