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ILLINOIS LITERACY IN ACTION
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​Content Area Writing
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​Standards #1 - #3: Text Types and Purposes
Standard 1
Argument Writing
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All About Standard #1
ISBE Strategies
Standard 2
Informative/Explanatory Writing

All About Standard #2
​ISBE Strategies
    Standard #3
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**Standard #3 is not applicable to Content Area Teachers
Mentor Text Resources:  6th-8th     9th-10th     11th-12th


Standards #4 - #6: Production and Distribution of Writing
ISBE The Writing Process
Standard 4
Developing  & Organizing Writing

All About Standard #4
ISBE Strategies
Standard 5
Developing & Strengthening Writing

All About Standard #5
ISBE Strategies
Standard 6
Using Technology


All About Standard #6  
ISBE Strategies

Standards #7 - #9: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard 7
Conducting Research

All About Standard #7
ISBE Strategies
Standard 8
Gathering Relevant Information

All About Standard #8
ISBE Strategies
Standard 9
Drawing Evidence
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All About Standard #9
ISBE Strategies

Standard 10: Range of Writing
(Write Routinely)
All About Standard # 10
ISBE Strategies

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Professional Development Resources
Facing History
            --Gathering and Analyzing Evidence
            -- Writing in the Content Areas
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 Common Core Writing Prompts
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Dr. Deb Wahlstrom
  • Text Structures for Different Types of Writing
  • Writing an Argument Checklist

​Adolescent Literacy
  • Reading and Writing in the Content Areas
  • Classroom Strategies​
  • ​100 Questions that Promote Mathematical Discourse: Curriculum Associates created this tool and many questions can be turned into writing prompts or used to meet Speaking & Listening Standards 
  • Writing in the Disciplines: History
  • OWL Online Writing Lab: Writing Across the Curriculum: An Introduction
  • Smithsonian - Artifacts and Analysis: A Teacher's Guide to Interpreting Objects and Writing History​
  • ReadWriteThink: Holocaust - Middle School​

Teaching History
  • Writing Using Primary Sources
  • Writing to Learn History: Annotations and Mini-Writes

Writing Fix - Writing Across the Curriculum
  • History Fix
  • Number Fix
  • Science Fix
  • Common Core Resources for History/Social Studies - Grades 6-8​
C-Span Bell Ringers: Short Video Clips Used as a Springboard to Writing
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