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Ninth & Tenth Grade Writing
​**Scope and Sequence Writing Guides are now named Ninth-Tenth Grade Guidance for Designing Literacy Tasks  and can be found on the Grade Level Home Page.

Standards #1 - #3: Text Types and Purpose

Standard #1
(Argument)

All About Standard 1
ISBE Strategies

 Standard #2
(Informative/Explanatory)

All About Standard 2
ISBE Strategies

Standard #3
(Narrative)

All About Standard 3    
ISBE Strategies

Mentor Text Resources

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Standards #4 - #6: Production and Distribution of Writing
ISBE: The Writing Process

Standard #4
(Develop & Organize Writing)
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All About Standard 4
ISBE Strategies

Standard #5
(Develop & Strengthen Writing)

All About Standard 5
ISBE Strategies

Standard #6
(Use Technology)

All About Standard 6
ISBE Strategies

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Standards #7 - #9: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Standard #7
(Conduct Research)

All About Standard 7
ISBE Strategies

Standard #8
(Gather Relevant Information)

All About Standard 8
ISBE Strategies

Standard #9
(Draw Evidence)

All About Standard 9
ISBE Strategies

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Standard #10
(Write Routinely)

​All About Standard 10​
ISBE Strategies
 

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Professional Development Resources

Writing Guidance

• Suggested Professional Development Books
• Research Resource for Grades 9-12: The Big 6

​​Adolescent Literacy

• Arguments
• Writing an Argument
• Inference and Informational Text
• Explanatory Writing Part 1
• Explanatory Writing Part 2 ​
• Understanding Craft and Structure, Part I 
• Understanding Craft and Structure, Part II
• Author's Purpose: Analyzing and Adapting Texts
• Living Wax Museum: Researching and Portraying
• Soliloquy to Love: Writing Soliloquies

Websites

• NCTE Writing Resources
• New York Times: 200 Prompts for Writing Arguments
• Plagiarism Detector
• Purdue OWL: Online Writing Lab - Search for a plethora of resources. 
• ASCD: Teaching Argument Writing to ELLs​
• Pro-Con - Controversial Issues to use in Argument Writing
• Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week - Resources to Write Using Current Events
• Citation Machine: An interactive web tool for formatting works cited (bibliographies). Supports both MLA and APA formats.