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​Content Area Writing

​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

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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

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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

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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
            -- 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