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My school has recently decided they want to develop a
curriculum map (for K-8) for writing. I'm on the committee
in charge of helping develop it and must say I'm currently
feeling #1) stuck and #2) a bit overwelmed when trying to
figure out how to really get started (and the rest of the
committee I'm on is feeling the same way!). This is the
first school-wide curriculum map any of us have done.

To start with, we decided it was probably best to start
with conducting some interviews with the teachers to gather
information about what they are already doing. To make the
interviews as uniform as possible (as a bunch of us will be
conducting them separately) we decided it was best to come
up with a set of questions to specifically ask.

Now my real problem currently comes with trying to figure
out what kind of questions to suggest. Our ultimate goal is
to try to get a picture of what is taught in each grade,...See More
Elizabeth /blockquote>

Hi, Becca

I don't know your location so I may be telling you something you already know.
I've been looking at state standards across the U. S. Go to Idaho's DOE website.
They have a K-12 map of their writing program. That might really be helpful to
you. South Carolina has their writing program laid out ...See More
Jan 3, 2007
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We recently started mapping our entire LA curriculum. We started with 2nd and
3rd grades and are working our way up. We figured it's like building the
foundation. It helped us to pic a part the standards to be taught and group them
into what seemed like logical "units". Then we broke the standards down into
...See More
Jan 15, 2007


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