Full Description
This book translates the best current research on adolescent writing instruction into teacher-friendly practices that are easy to implement in today's diverse classrooms. Leading experts present instructional methods that are applicable across the curriculum as well as specific, proven techniques to build writing skills and promote critical thinking in English language arts, social studies, science, and math. Key chapters address multimodal writing and pedagogical uses of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Other essential topics include self-regulated strategy development, culturally sustaining writing practices, writing for college readiness, and teaching argument writing. Guiding Questions, Action Steps, and helpful classroom examples in each chapter enhance the book's utility as a teacher resource and course text.
Contents
Introduction: Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching Writing, Steve Graham & Young-Suk Grace Kim
I. Writing Instruction Across the Disciplines
1. Strategies for Teaching Writing to Foster Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, Carol Booth Olson, Undraa Maamuujav, & Huy Q. Chung
2. Culturally Sustaining Writing Practices, Tricia Ebarvia & Kimberly N. Parker
3. Teaching Argument Writing to Support Secondary Students for College Readiness and Beyond, Tanya Baker
4. Self-Regulated Strategy Development in Secondary Classrooms, Amber B. Ray & Steve Graham
5. Writing Like an Expert: Grammar as a Resource for Teaching Writing in the Disciplines, Debra Myhill
II. Writing in the Disciplines
6. Telling the Stories of Our Lives in Prose and Poetry, Penny Kittle
7. Teaching Argument Writing in the English Language Arts Classroom: Diversity as Resource, Carol D. Lee
8. Multilingual Learners: Writing with Sources throughout Social Studies Inquiry, Chauncey Monte-Sano & Mary Schleppegrell
9. Teaching Counterarguments for Improved Historical Reasoning and Civic Discourse, Tanya Baker, Jacob Steiss, Carol Booth Olson, Nicole Gilbertson, & Huy Q. Chung
10. Constructing and Using Propositional Concept Maps for Writing and Learning in Science, Nancy Romance
11. Writing-to-Learn in the Secondary Science Classroom: Exploring Possibilities for Equity, Catherine Lammert, Alison F. Warren, & Brian Hand
12. Using Writing to Improve Learning in Mathematics, Sharlene A. Kiuhara & Kaitlin Bundock
III. Writing in a Digital World
13. Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence to Improve Secondary Writing Instruction, Tamara P. Tate & Mark Warschauer
14. Multimodal Writing: Affordances and Rhetorical Value of Composing Multimodally, Undarmaa Maamuujav, Jenell Krishnan, & Penelope Collins
Index
