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Writing behind every door: teaching common core writing in the content areas /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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New York
Routledge
2014
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| Series: | An Eye On Education book
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue
- What's in a name?
- The importance of transfer
- A little educational history to get the ball rolling
- Writing as the universal subject
- A brief note on the need for tweens and teens to write
- The common core standards as a meaningful guide, not an instruction manual
- Welcoming back an old friend: project based writing (or, in this case, project based writing)
- Brushing the dust off of the 6 traits (+ 2)
- Developing meaningful assessments and prompts
- Student created assessments and rubrics
- Argument: the universal writing genre
- The argument for argument
- Features of argumentation as a writing genre
- Possible structures of cross-curricular argumentation essays
- A brief note on scoring arguments
- Cross-curricular assignments and activities
- Science
- History
- ELA
- Electives
- PE
- Informational : it's all around us
- The ted unit
- Collaboration and differentiation can co-exist
- Information hunting: breaking the google homepage habit
- Developing a problem statement
- The student created resource library
- The importance of visualizing data
- Incorporating informational writing into a narrative unit
- Uncommon assessments to show informational research (even in a narrative unit)
- Narrative : there's a place for it in all disciplines
- The infusion of narrative elements into interdisciplinary content
- Incorporating informational writing into a narrative unit
- Summary: get to the point! the underrated writing genre
- The summary card
- Chunking text
- What's the big idea?
- Cornell notes
- The executive summary
- Scoring summaries
- The multi-genre genre
- The case for writing desegregation
- The ultimate multi-genre writing projects: website and apps
- Techniques to teach writing that works
- The big list of writing strategies to use in any classroom
- Color-coding
- Strategies for embedding evidence
- Strategies for incorporating commentary
- Dual-entry journals
- Modeling
- Differentiated writing assignments
- Using a writers notebook
- Blogging
- Accessible scaffolds
- Think-talk-write
- Train them to be teachers
- Teaching academic vocabulary
- Using acronyms
- Using flipbooks
- Providing a classroom library
- Writing with technology for the common core
- Modeling to create a tech-rich environment
- Digital learning tips for students
- What kind of tech-savvy teacher do you want to be?
- Creating an online student lounge
- The big list of common core technology resources
- 21st century pd in writing for every teacher
- The common core professional learning community
- Developing a universal common core language as a staff
- Developing site-based training in writing across the disciplines
- Quick and efficient tips to score writing
- Developing an online common core themed faculty lounge
- Get thee to a writing project!.