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Colourful Semantics - click
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Colourful Semantics Starter Pack - click
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Click - The core knowledge and ideas inherent in the NSW English K-10 syllabus have been identified by the English Textual Concepts (2016). This article draws upon the English Textual Concepts resource to investigate ‘representation'. What it is and why it’s important will be discussed, as well as suggestions for how representation can be used to enhance the teaching and learning of English in years K-6. The English Textual Concepts clearly defines the concept of representation.
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Writing Program - Steph Westwood - click to view
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Excellent from Vic Ed - click to view
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Writing - S2
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Melanie Headley
PLAT Writing Handbook
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Thank you to Amanda Jo for sharing this document. Also to Booragul PS, Tighes Hill PS, Toronto PS, Morrisett PS, Speers Point PS, Maryland PS, Minmi PS, Charlestown South PS, Eleebana PS, Cardiff North PS for assisting with its development.
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48 Slams - NZ - Success For Boys
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In June 2014, the NZ Ministry of Education piloted an innovative learning programme for boys identified as having problems engaging with traditional education methods.
A Guide to Effective Instruction in Writing
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Engaging Students in Writing Using D&D - Click to view the clip
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S3 T3 Writing Program - Backward Mapping
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Informative Text - Alliera Carroll - Thanks Alliera.
2017 Term 3 Writing Program
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Steph Westwood
2017 T4 Writing Program
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Steph Westwood
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Big Ideas - Class Dojo
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Provides storytelling videos and activities. Students love learning about the key components of creative writing while exploring the Night Zoo! This set of videos was created by Night Zookeeper.
4 Square Writing Method
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Click to download - based on Alan Peat's work
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Writing for A Purpose
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Guidance notes for the four writing purposes in KS1 & 2 - UK but a great resource
Write Spell
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Do You Have Writer's Eye?
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Freebie, print in A3 and laminate.
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High 5 Writing Method
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Writing Ideas & Tips To Inspire
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Tips and ideas galore!
Success Criteria for Writing
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Not based on NSW English Continuum but a great idea.
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Success Criteria for Writing
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Not based the NSW continuum but so very easy to adapt.
Writing Guidance
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From Ireland but contains ideas to support your writing program.
Assessing Writing - S1
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From UK but contains ideas that you can support your writing program.
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Autobiographical Maps
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The Best Part of Me
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Ideas
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Best Part of Me Poetry
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Best Part of Me Freebie
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Pins
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Pre-Writing and Fine Motor Skills
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Gayle Pinn
Fine Motor Skills
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Teaching Writing - Ideas
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Click
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Pobble
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Pobble provides writing stimulus plus resources. For each stimulus the resources include a Story Starter, Question Time, Sentence Challenge, Sick Sentences and Perfect Picture.
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Pobble provides writing stimulus plus resources. For each stimulus the resources include a Story Starter, Question Time, Sentence Challenge, Sick Sentences and Perfect Picture.
Sentence Features Poster
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Writing Process - freebie
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The Writing Process Posters
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Grab your free copy now!
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These 4 resources are great for developing informative and persuasive text.
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Cats and Dogs and Us - K-6 resources. Click!
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Elephants Never Forget - K-6 resources
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Born To Be Wild - K-6 resources...lesson plans, video clips etc
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Keep Animals Wild - K-6 resources
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Writing Place - Teacher Notes
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Writing Place - Student Activities
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Writing Generator
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Writing Excercises
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This site provides (completely free) writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks. Generate random story ideas, plots, subjects, scenarios, characters, first lines for stories and more.
Write About
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Free writing ideas, with search function. Like Pobble 365.
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Year 2 Response Tasks
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Year 2 Quality Text Response Tasks - created by Lizzie Chase
Journal Tasks Templates
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Created by Lizzie Chase
Writers Style and Voice
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Created by Lizzie Chase
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Supermarket - S3
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An UK KS4 interactive which can be adapted/used for S3. Aims for students to use their senses to create effects in their writing, plan writing visually and think about vocabulary.
My Writing Checklist
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Created and shared by Christina Anne Massey
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Style and Voice Jigsaw
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Created by Lizzie Chase
Picture A Story
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Virtual Traveller
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Select a trip, listen to the travel diary and write about it. Add pictures to decorate.
Understanding and Writing Dialogue - S2
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An interactive
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Writing Hub
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A useful NZ site that " These resources will help strengthen your knowledge and skills for teaching writing across the curriculum and increasing students’ rate of progress. As students move through primary school, the texts they write and the tasks they engage with become increasingly complex. With strategic and focused teaching, students can develop a strong literacy foundation and make greater than expected progress in one year."
How To Build Stories -S2-3
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What's The Scoop?
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Free download
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Improving Sentences
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Free - Reading & Writing Resources
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WOW!!!!
Free reading and writing anchor charts, prompting bookmarks!
Grab your copies NOW!!!

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Film English
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The site promotes the innovative and creative use of film in English language teaching and learning. All of the lesson plans revolve around the use of video and film to teach English. The site promotes cineliteracy, the ability to analyse moving images, and considers cineliteracy as a 21st century skill which our students need to learn. In addition, the lessons promote critical thinking in the language classroom, and encourage learners to reflect on values while learning a language.
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Pobble 365
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Wow, wow, wow! A free classroom resource for teachers aims to engage students in creative writing. A different image and writing activities every day of the year. Plus you can download the writing activities, pictures and previous lessons/pictures. An awesome resource!!!
By joining up to Pobble teachers are able to access additional resources and ideas colleagues are successfully using.
Pobble 365 Pinterest
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Writing Genre - Free PDF
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Inspire Students' Writing With The Jedi!
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Inspire Writing With BB-8 Droid
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Developing Pencil Grip
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Free download and overview.
The Writing Process Poster
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Writing Connections
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Handwriting Skills- Tasmania
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Contains valuable skill development activities.
NSW Handwriting Guide
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Teaching Writing
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You need to "check out" this site!
Writing Fix
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Packed with resources.
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Writing Analysis Tool - CSU
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 A great idea but not the NSW Continuum.
A Writing Analysis tool to help teachers assess students writing on the continuum. It has student samples for clusters 1-6 for spelling, handwriting and vocab.
Rocking and Writing - Y3-5
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Excellent lesson resource
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Card Maker
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Autobiography - A Dog's tale
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Story Boarder
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Create A Comic
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6 Word Sentences
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Or adapt this to 8 or 10 word sentences ........
Create Planet Stories
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Star Wars Crawl Creator
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A site that lets you write the opening writing sequence of the Star Wars films, complete with music. A great way to encourage reluctant writers to write story beginnings. 
Virtual Sentence Maker
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A beautifully made virtual word wall and sentence maker. 
Use the default words or add your own. 
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Slow Writing - Freebie
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Slow Writing - Cue Card Freebie
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Slow Writing
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Slow Writing
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Slow Writing
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Slow Writing
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Requires free membership which is easy
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This interactive provides a structured writing format similar to Alan Peat.
Slow Writing - Improving Writing
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Slow Writing
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Story Jumper
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This is a fabulous site for creating free ebooks by uploading photos from your computer, or by using the well stocked gallery of props scenes and characters provided by the site. Just drag and drop your items into place. 
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Slow Writing - PPT
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Slow Writing - Example
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Slow Writing - Example
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Book Cover Guide - Interactive
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Book Cover Creator
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Roll a Story created by Louise Winsor. Thanks for sharing Louise : )
This is a great idea to adapt to create a Roll a Story for persuasive or informative writing.
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 Meredith Snowden Resources - S1- Term 1
Meredith has created a 5 day cyclical writing program for her S1 class.
You could use or adapt these ppt to suit the needs of your class and stage outcomes.
Monday - List writing.
Tuesday - Description writing.

Wednesday - Opinion writing. Students have 3 minutes to decide between which of the two options they like the best and then explain their preferences. 
Thursday -  Explanation writing. Each week is the same, a picture is provided and the students explain what it is and how it works.
Friday - Contains 
a mish mash of all sorts of weird and wonderful things for the children to do and write about.
Thank you for sharing your inspirational writing resources Meredith : )
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New - Terms 2 - 4 Meredith Snowden Writing Resources - S1
Meredith has created a 5 day cyclical writing program for her S1 class.
You could use or adapt these ppt to suit the needs of your class and stage outcomes.
Monday - List writing.
Tuesday - Description writing.

Wednesday - Opinion writing. Students have 3 minutes to decide between which of the two options they like the best and then explain their preferences. 
Thursday -  Explanation writing. Each week is the same, a picture is provided and the students explain what it is and how it works.
Friday - Contains 
a mish mash of all sorts of weird and wonderful things for the children to do and write about.
Thank you for sharing your inspirational writing resources Meredith : )
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Terms 1 -4 - click pic.
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Terms 1 - 4 - click pic.
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Terms 1 - 4 - click pic.
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Terms 1 - 4 - click pic.
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Terms 1 - 4 - click pic.
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Big Writing & VCOP
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VCOP means Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation. 
Jenni Lainson says "VCOP is part of the BIG writing approach. You can't do one without the other. 
The idea is that kids work on incorporporating one of these areas at a higher level after each is gradually introduced, modelled, shown in displays etc. 
Then they, or if younger, their teacher, analyses their writing to see which one is missing or weak and then it becomes their new focus. 
Games, displays and LOTS of talk build up across the week to a BIG writing session. 
Topics might have been discussed at home during talk homework or in class with a stimulus. 
There are lots of ways to make the writing session special- music,candles,edible treats..kids love it and so do teachers." 
Writing Tasks -VCOP
61 exemplary writing tasks, ready to print and use, setting out is NAPLAN syle.
Download your set today! 
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In-case you are unable to download 
them from this site 
I have them in my resource box @ Resource Link
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VCOP Resources - Free!
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The Adventure Creator App
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The Adventure Creator
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Pixar To Develop Writing
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Pixar's 22 Rules to Phenomenal Storytelling
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Inspiring Students To Write Using Lego
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Lego Story Starter Kit + App
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Boom Writer
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Cultures Writing Prompts - L Williamson
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The Literacy Shed
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Graphic Organisers
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Improving Writing - K Yager
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2014 NAPLAN Writing Guide
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Writing - Tone and Style - S3
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Formal + Informal Writing - S3
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Writing Structure & Paragraphs - S3
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Engaging With Texts
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Exploring Composing
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Text Requirements-G Pinn
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BOS Rubrics
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Sentence Type Posters
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Sentence A Day Program
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Writing Frames
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Cognitive Rigor Matrix-Reading Writing
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Handwriting
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