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I see classroom teachers in my school, and in the school my children attend, "adapting" to the new writing tests by actually teaching writing to a prompt in paragraph and essay form. This isn't teaching to the test, this is teaching writing. Properly. 
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How did anyone ever learn to write essays without Common Core?  It is a miracle![/quote]

In the state of MD, before Common Core state standards were adopted, writing essays was not a standard set for elementary school students.

Individual teachers may have decided that they wanted to teach their students to write essays, but that decision was an individual one.   The state did not have this standard expectation of all students by 5th or 6th grade.

Thus most students were not expected or required to learn to write a simple essay!

Now that the standard has been adopted, all teachers are teaching students to meet the standard, which means that they are teaching students to write basic essays.[/quote]

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