CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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Lesson on the Global Water Crisis with RAFT Writing Exercise (Pulitzer Center)
- Lesson on Blending Fiction and Nonfiction Writing (Using factual information in creative writing)
- Lesson Using Poetry and Song to Make History Come Alive (Students write a narrative poem about an historical event)
- "Steps To The American Revolution" Activity, Combining Art and Writing (Can be adapted to other sequencing activities)
- Lesson Using Historical Images and Creative Narrative Writing
- Ideas for Writing Routinely
- Many Ideas for Writing Activities from Internet4Classrooms
- Great Ideas for Writing to Learn in Social Studies, including quick writes, learning logs, RAFTs, and more
- Writing First-Person Fiction in Social Studies
- Social Studies Writing Prompt Ideas
- Quick Write and Journal Ideas for Social Studies
- (Some with Writing; Some with Creative Aspects)
- 180 Social Studies Writing Prompts with Images
- Cool Writing Prompts with Visuals
- Examples of Content-Specific Writing Prompts
- Build a RAFT for Your Social Studies Class
- Writing Across the Curriculum in Social Studies - Many Strategies
- Examples of Formative Assessment - Many Include Writing (See links below)
- Annotations and Mini-Writes in Social Studies
- Creative Writing Ideas for Social Studies
- Writing Prompts with Rubrics
| 56_examples_of_formative_assessment.pdf |
| formative_assessment_in_social_studies.pdf |
| raft_ideas_for_american_history_by_period.pdf |