Writing Card Sorts for PLCs and Writing Professional Development

Description

Make your next writing PD hands-on. These pre-made writing sorts help teachers build content knowledge during PLCs and professional development.

Make planning your next reading PD a breeze with these pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for professional development in the area of literacy. Engage your teachers in real discussions about the writing process, expository and narrative characteristics for different grade levels, editing vs. revision, and more with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.

As an instructional coach and a PD provider, I use sorts in every workshop that I provide because they give teachers…

• something to do with their hands
• an opportunity to discuss with their colleagues
• time to make meaning
• a purpose for accessing background knowledge
• the opportunity to develop a common language with their colleagues

Included in this resource…

• A two-page guide for the learning facilitator
• Eleven sorting or matching activities

Expository Rubric Sort for Kinder (picture writing)

• Six trait cards: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
• 16 characteristics cards for sorting

Expository Rubric Sort for K-2

• Six trait cards: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
• 18 characteristics cards for sorting

Expository Rubric Sort for 3-5

• Six trait cards: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
• 20 characteristics cards for sorting

Narrative Rubric Sort for Kindergarten (picture writing)

• Six trait cards: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
• 16 characteristics cards for sorting

Narrative Rubric Sort for K-2

• Six trait cards: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
• 20 characteristics cards for sorting

Narrative Rubric Sort for 3-5

• Six trait cards: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
• 20 characteristics cards for sorting

Reading Like a Reader vs. Reading Like a Writer Sort

• Reading Like a Reader/Writer/Both title cards
• purpose cards for sorting
• 18 characteristics/thought process cards for sorting

Revision vs. Editing Sort

• Revision/Editing title cards
• 15 skills/strategies cards for sorting
• 8 test-like question cards for sorting

Writer’s Workshop Vocabulary Match

• 12 terms about Writer’s Workshop such as minilesson, status of the class, rituals and routines, writing conferences, etc.
• definition cards for matching

Writing Genres Sort

• Narrative/Expository/Both title cards
• purpose cards for sorting
• 16 characteristics cards for sorting

Writing Process Sort

• 6 steps in the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, conferencing, editing, publishing
• 24 characteristics and detail cards for sorting

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This resource, once purchased, is meant to be used by one PD provider on one campus. For additional campuses, please purchase additional licenses.