HarmonTeach

These colorful and fun posters can be printed, laminated and hung on your classroom walls to remind you, students, administrators, parents and guests of the Common Core ELA standards. The simplicity of the posters makes the standards easily understood accessible to all! ELA Common Core Standards Posters by James Harmon is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

I conduct this Common Core writing activity with my students to give them an opportunity to receive feedback from someone outside the classroom. When students write for a real world audience, their writing improves. After conducting and interest survey and a writer's conference, students write blog entries over an extended period of time. In my classroom, we do it for four to six weeks. This unit contains student handouts, a rubric, targeted CCSS, links to examples of effective student blogs, an