UEN Resources for K-12 Education

Argumentative Writing

Here are some resources to help your students improve their argumentative writing skills.

Elementary Performance Tasks

These Performance Task Templates and Lesson Plans, developed by Utah educators, align to the Elementary Utah Core.

English Language Arts Courses and Resources

Visit UEN's English Language Arts page to view the Utah core and support materials.

Persuasive / Opinion Writing

A collection of online resources to help students write effective persuasive essays.

Presidential Writings Project

Utah’s secondary educators have designed well scaffolded lessons that support the increased cognitive rigor of the Utah literacy standards. The focus of this project is presidential writings.

Text Complexity Rubric for Informational Text

This rubric will help you evaluate the Text Complexity of Informational Text.

Text Complexity Rubric for Literary Text

This rubric was designed to help you evaluate the Text Complexity of Literary Text.

Writing Collection Project

Samples for grades K-12 for information and opinion/argument writing.