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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

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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

Books and Other Documents

• Suggested Professional Development Books
• Research Resource for Grades 3-8 - The Big 6
• Research Resource for Grades 9-12 The Big 6

Michigan Department of Education - Writing Across the Curriculum

• ELA
• Social Studies
• Science
• Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum: A Policy Research Brief produced by the National Council of Teachers of English
• Tennessee State Library and Archives: Using Primary Resources
• Facing History

            --Gathering and Analyzing Evidence: 27 Strategies
            -- Writing in the Content Areas: A Pathway to Critical
                 Thinking
Dr. Deb Wahlstrom

• Text Structures for Different Types of Writing
• Writing an Argument Checklist

Videos and PowerPoints
​The Teaching Channel

• Real World Problem Solving: Designing an iPad Cover 9th-12th Science Engineering
• Creating a School Web Site: 9th-12th
• Using Debate to Develop Thinking and Speaking Skills 9th-12th History/Economics
• Exploring the World of Ancient Civilizations: 9th-12th History
• The Continental Puzzle: 6th Grade
• Making Sense of Density: 7th Grade

Web Sites

• 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
• Facing History: Common Core Writing Prompts, Units and Other Resources
• ReadWriteThink: Holocaust - Middle School

The Baltimore County Public Schools

• Writing in Science
• Writing in History/Social Studies
• Writing in Mathematics/Technical Subjects

Teaching History

• Evidence-Based Historical Writing
• Writing to Learn History: Annotations and Mini-Writes

Adolescent Literacy

• Reading and Writing in the Content Areas
• Classroom Strategies

West Virginia: Writing Across the Curriculum

• Strategy Bank
• Writing in Social Studies
• Writing in Science
• Writing in the Arts
• Writing in Mathematics

Writing Fix - Writing Across the Curriculum

• History Fix
• Number Fix
• Science Fix
• Common Core Resources for History/Social Studies - Grades 6-8​

• Utah Education Network: Resources for Argument Writing
• C-Span Bell Ringers: Short Video Clips Used as a Springboard to Writing