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Writing Across Curriculum
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ELA knows best!
ELA teachers understand how important it is that our students have a plethora of writing experience.
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Burnout
However, teaching and building these diverse writing skills are often vested to ELA teachers.
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Writing Across the Curriculum
This concept focuses on expanding student writing beyond the ELA classroom.
This includes other core subjects, electives, and the home setting.
Each focuses on the writing demands of their respective field.
Childs, K. (2020). Write away: Writing across the curriculum and beyond. Texas Association of Literacy Education, 7.
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Writing and Math
Have students write their own word problems using the terms and formulas currently being used in class.
Nobody knows how to make a word problem authentic and interesting for a student than the students themselves.
Childs, K. (2020). Write away: Writing across the curriculum and beyond. Texas Association of Literacy Education, 7.
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Writing and Science
Students can formulate their own scientific questions.
Students are able to write an authentic lab report on a research question that is more focused on their individual interests.
Childs, K. (2020). Write away: Writing across the curriculum and beyond. Texas Association of Literacy Education, 7.
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Writing and Social Studies
These teachers can focus on geographical standards to create an authentic writing activity for students.
Students can make a list of places that they would like to visit and research about those places to create reasons why others should visit there as well.
They can integrate these reasons into a brochure.
Childs, K. (2020). Write away: Writing across the curriculum and beyond. Texas Association of Literacy Education, 7.
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Writing and Electives
Students can write about their favorite athlete, sport, or activity for PE.
Students in the arts can research musical/artistic time periods and create their own pieces based off of their research.
Childs, K. (2020). Write away: Writing across the curriculum and beyond. Texas Association of Literacy Education, 7.
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We’re All in This Together
Teacher collaboration can make the transition to writing across the curriculum smoother for all teachers.
Senn et al. (2018) suggest that teachers choose at least two major standards from different content areas for the team to focus their units on.
Senn, G., McMurtrie, D., & Coleman, B. (2019). Collaboration in the middle: Teachers in interdisciplinary planning. Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 24(1).
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The teachers go on to work as a team to create lessons and writing activities for each class that focus on those standards and standards specific to that content area.
Having a central focus throughout their content classes makes writing across curriculum more efficient for students because they are writing on similar topics using diverse writing demands and styles.
Senn, G., McMurtrie, D., & Coleman, B. (2019). Collaboration in the middle: Teachers in interdisciplinary planning. Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 24(1).
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Benefits of this method.
Students create a deeper understanding of the respective content.
Students participate in diverse authentic writing activities.
Teachers can collaborate to identify specific writing needs across the different styles of writing.
Childs, K. (2020). Write away: Writing across the curriculum and beyond. Texas Association of Literacy Education, 7.
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Food for Thought
"Writing is a skill needed for communication throughout life, and providing students with quality writing instruction involves working as a team across subjects" (Childs 2020)
Childs, K. (2020). Write away: Writing across the curriculum and beyond. Texas Association of Literacy Education, 7.
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