Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Common Core State Standards, Grades 9-10, Writing: History, Science & Technical Subjects · Read it at the source · Checked October 14, 2026
What WHST.9-10.6 Means in Plain English
Ninth and tenth graders write, publish and update history, science and technical pieces online, alone or as a team. They link to the sources behind each fact and use displays readers can sort or filter, like an allergen chart a culinary class updates whenever a recipe changes.
Grades 6 to 8 (WHST.6-8.6) produce and publish writing that shows how ideas relate. Grades 9 to 10 add shared products, links to other information, flexible displays and the update when facts change. Grades 11 to 12 (WHST.11-12.6) update in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments.
WHST.9-10.6 I Can Statements
I can publish and update a shared piece with my team.
I can link each claim to the source behind it.
I can choose a display readers can sort, filter or search.
WHST.9-10.6 Worked Example
Both students were asked to update the same shared chart after the same recipe change; only one left it right for every reader.
Prompt
Culinary arts. Your class publishes an online allergen chart for the lunch counter your program runs, written and kept current by a team of four students. It lists every menu item against the nine major food allergens the FDA names. This week the chef instructor replaced the nut-free sunflower-seed pesto in the turkey panini with a traditional pesto made with pine nuts, and added sesame seeds to the house bread. Update the chart, and explain how your team made the change.
Not YetI changed the panini row so it says tree nuts now. I think the bread has sesame, so I put that on the bread row too. Nobody else looked at it, but it should be fine.The chart is still wrong: the house bread goes into three other sandwiches, and their rows still say no sesame. Nothing tells a returning reader the chart changed, nothing links to the recipes or the FDA list, and one student edited a shared safety document alone without a second check.
Meets the StandardWe added a banner at the top of the chart: “Updated October 6: the turkey panini now contains tree nuts (pine nuts), and every item on house bread now contains sesame.” Because the chart is a filterable table, we tagged the house bread once, and the sesame flag now appears on all four sandwiches that use it instead of being typed row by row. Each menu item links to its recipe card, so a parent can check every ingredient, and the allergen column headings link to the FDA’s page on the nine major allergens. Readers can filter the table to show only items free of a chosen allergen, which is how most students with allergies use it. One of us made the changes in the shared draft, a second checked each row against the new recipe cards, and the chef instructor approved the page before we published the update.The change is announced with its date, so returning readers know which rows moved. The table shows information flexibly, filtering by allergen and carrying one ingredient tag to every item that uses it, and the links let readers check the recipe cards and the FDA list instead of trusting the chart. The team also checked its shared product before the update went live.
Moves to Use
Announce every update with its date and exactly what changed.Store a fact once and let the display carry it everywhere it applies.Link each claim to the page behind it so readers can verify it.Have a second team member check a shared piece before it goes live.
Common Mistakes with WHST.9-10.6
The silent update
A corrected chart with no sign that anything changed since a reader’s last visit
Try this: Require a dated change note at the top of every update, naming each item and fact that changed.
Copying instead of linking
An ingredient list pasted into the page that no longer matches the recipe card
Try this: Have students link to the source page wherever a fact can change, and quote only what readers need on the page.
One editor on a team product
“Nobody else looked at it, but it should be fine.”
Try this: Assign roles for every update, one writer and one checker, and have the checker sign the change note.
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