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**Welcome to the wiki for the Colorado Writing Project. On these pages, you'll find add****itional resources that extend our daily discussions.**

A quote from Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, Christopher Lehman: The Common Core writing standards seem utterly aligned to the writing process tradition that is well established across the states, with a few new areas of focus and a raised bar for the quality of writing we should expect students to produce. This quality of writing can be achieved by mandating the explicit instruction, opportunities for practice, centrality of feedback, assessment-based instruction, and spiral curriculum that have all been hallmarks of rigorous writing instruction. -//Pathways to the Common Core// (page 112)

= **Why write? What do the writers say?** =

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= [|Why must teachers of writing write?] =

Ed Week published the following commentary that is worthy of reading, discussing, and perhaps debating: [|Let's stop teaching writing]

Check this out: [|NPR on 3 books for writers]

Research behind CWP: [|It All Starts Here]

[|Creating Community Through Writing]

[|A writer's list of tips for writers (young and old)]

= TEACHERS, HERE'S INFORMATION TO READ BEFORE THE PROJECT BEGINS =

UCD Registration Form: Please see the letter sent in mid July. The form is attached.
= = = Please check here daily for any articles or handouts that you'll need: = =Day 1= The following three documents are written by Penny Kittle. Please read them before our first day together and download and print them.

Also be sure to download and read this chapter -- unless you're reading Penny Kittle's Write Beside Them. This is a chapter in her book. Please don't print this document.

=OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT WILL BE HELPFUL LATER IN THE PROJECT=

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For your fun as you think about writing daily for 2 weeks (from Daniel Pink, author of Drive):

= NEW DOCUMENTS = N WP recently wrote and published a document that explains a framework for developing writing assignments:


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