Writing Across the Curriculum: All Teachers Teach Writing

Shelley S. Peterson

Aug 2008 · Portage & Main Press

About this ebook

As the amount of curriculum in today's classrooms expands and teaching time seems to shrink, teachers are looking for ways to integrate content area and writing instruction. In this revised and expanded edition of Writing Across the Curriculum, Shelley Peterson shows teachers how to weave writing and content area instruction together in their classrooms. The author provides practical and helpful ideas for classroom teachers and content-area specialists to easily incorporate writer's workshop while teaching in their subject area. New features in this second edition include: - internet websites that can be used to teach writing (e.g., wiki's, weblogs, and digital storytelling) - examples from grades 4-8 classrooms that show how science, social studies, health, and mathematics teachers can also be teachers of poetry, narrative, and non-narrative writing - new assessment scoring guides - information on working with struggling writers and supporting English Language Learners - graphic organizers, templates, and mini-lessons that engage students in learning

About the author

Shelley Stagg Peterson Ph.D. is an acclaimed Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Prof. Stagg Peterson is a recipient of the President's Impact Award. Her research interests include young children's language and literacy; play-based learning; collaborative action research; northern rural and Indigenous education; children's Indigenous language learning; feedback on writing; writing assessment and instruction; and children's literature. Harvey Daniels a former classroom teacher and college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education. He has authored Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, Minilessons for Literature Circles, and coauthored Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide. He is also coauthor of Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools. Daniels works with elementary and secondary teachers throughout the North America, and Europe.