Keys to Content Writing Keys to Literacy

Description

by Joan Sedita

Keys to Content Writing focuses on practices that address the writing requirements of Common Core literacy standards, including frequent writing in all content areas. This text includes the following:

• short and longer writing tasks
• overview of the three types of writing (argument, informational, narrative), with a focus on using informational and argument writing to learn content
• reproducible writing templates, graphic organizers, rubrics, and checklists
• student process writing routine (THINK, PLAN, WRITE, REVISE)
• how to teach basic text structures: introductions, conclusions, body development
• suggestions for teaching transition words and phrases
• strategies for writing from sources, including gathering information and taking notes from text sources
• Writing Assignment Guide (WAG) for planning classroom writing assignments
• numerous examples and practice exercises • reproducible templates and a process writing poster
• soft cover:  234 pages