# Assessing and Supporting Student Writing

**URL:** <https://forum.code.org/t/assessing-and-supporting-student-writing/1398>\
**Category:** CS Principles\
**Tags:** writing\
**Created:** [July 28, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/assessing-and-supporting-student-writing/1398 "2015-07-28T15:58:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/assessing-and-supporting-student-writing/1398/1 "2015-07-28T15:58:54Z")

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Check out these helpful writing resources shared by a participant at the Spokane CSP PD. Materials are from a website called [www.literacyta.com](http://www.literacyta.com), and include supports to help students:

- synthesize a source
- pull out and analyze relevant information from sources
- engage prior knowledge
- summarize main ideas
- summarize a source
- turn prompts into outlines

[You can access the files here](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B21d4g64Z62YfjRDVkxLdk5TRjBRemtUNmxtQ0Q2bjlQY1NWa3FsOVhWZHc4b3RQWXlNWTQ).