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MIDDLE SCHOOL MLA CITATION QUICK GUIDE 📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝 This document can be used when students are writing and need to cite their work using in-text citations and a Works Cited page. #workscited #citations #MLA #intextcitations #middleschool #highschool #writing #expositorywriting #ELA #informationalwriting #rsearch #elateacher #teacherresources #bibliography #references #sources #scholarlysources #tpt #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #teacherspayteachers

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MIDDLE SCHOOL EXPOSITORY/INFORMATIONAL VOCABULARY LIST 📝📚📝This is a list of words that students can study during an expository lesson, unit, or activity. This can be done through various activities including writing sentences, drawing images, creating student-friendly definitions, making flash cards, taking a pre/post quiz, etc... CLICK LINK IN BIO TO PURCHASE! #vocabulary #expositorywriting #informationalwriting #research #middleschool #highschool #tpt #vocabularyactivities #teacherresources #flashcards #spelling #expositorytext #ELA #elateacher #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #teacherspayteachers #vocab

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Common Core State Standards and MY Access!®- Informational (Text-Based) Writing and MY Tutor®

As the Common Core Standards begin to take center stage in school districts across the country, many students and teachers are anticipating the challenges that will come with informational (text-based) writing.

The Common Core Standards offer students more opportunities to write informational pieces that call for critical thinking and analysis of text(s). Students will be expected to:

Analyze and integrate key ideas and details presented in text(s)

Offer in-depth explorations of an author’s point of view, tone, and structure

Incorporate knowledge and ideas to support an argument

This criterion can be overwhelming for both students and teachers! MY Access! provides the tools necessary for helping students and teachers meet the challenges of informational writing with confidence and success.

The teacher’s role in informational writing is vital. The following steps can help teachers optimize instruction and writing for the informational genre:

Select an informational prompt

Familiarize students with the text(s) and concepts presented in the prompt task through class discussions

Provide additional background information (as needed) to increase student comprehension

Define the focus of the prompt to steer students in the right direction:

As a large group, in smaller teams, or individually,  students should identify the main ideas presented in the text(s)

Encourage students to gather their ideas and establish a plan for supporting them by using relevant information from the provided text(s)

Clarify the proper uses of paraphrasing, quoting, and citing materials in order to maintain optimal authentic student writing

The student’s success in informational writing begins with a thorough understanding of the topic covered in the text(s). Once a student is comfortable with the text(s), there are many tools available in the MY Access! Resource and Training Center that can strengthen writing in this genre:

Cluster Webs: students can organize main ideas and supporting information

Do-What?” Chart: students can establish what the prompt is asking and outline WHAT needs to be addressed within the essay

KWL Chart: students can identify what they already know, what they want to learn, and what they have learned

Energize Your Writing: students can enrich the quality and effectiveness of their writing with different vocabulary choices

Developing a Thesis: students can work through four steps of building a thesis statement

When they have their drafting materials ready, it is time for students to log into MY Access! and begin writing. After they have finished their draft, MY Tutor can provide strategies and revision goals in the areas of focus, content and development, organization, language use, voice and style, and mechanics and conventions.

Students who devote time to developing each of these writing traits not only illustrate that writing is a process, but that, through drafts and revisions, the quality of writing and effectiveness of communication can be improved!