Writing Across the Curriculum

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What Content Writing Is Not

• An add-on to the schools curriculum
• Accomplished by assigning a paper in every class
• Designed to add more work for you
• Busy work
• Journal response/free writes that never receive
  feedback
• An effort by reading/writing to have others do
  their work for them
• Always a report.

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What Content Writing is

1. Evidence of learning and thinking
2. Communicating
3. Practicing a process
4. Real life application
5. Complex
6. Modeled
7. Rooted deeply in meaningful content
8. Frequent and Routine
9. Many different formats and lengths

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Fletchers Core Beliefs About Writing

• Conditions for Real Writing
• Personal Choice
• Social interactions
• Time/Space to do quality writing
• Pay-off (purpose/feedback)

• Writers Need
• Time
• To separate composing from editing
• Response
• Responsibility

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Five Categories of Non-Fiction Writing

• Recount Writing
• Report Writing
• Explanatory Writing
• Procedural Writing
• Persuasive Writing
• 99 Types of Writing pdf

Types of writing List pdf List of Genre examples
pdf Explanations of Types of writing
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Writing Strand

• Text Types Purposes

3 Standards- Text Types 1. Argument 2.
Informative/Explanatory 3. Narrative
Range of Writing
Production Distribution of Writing
10. Writing Routinely for both extended and
shorter time frames
3 Standards 4. Produce Clear and Coherent
Writing-organization and form 5. Quality writing
using the writing process-planning, revising,
editing 6. Publish and Produce Collaborate
through Technology
Research to Build Present Knowledge
3 Standards 7. Short and Sustained Research
Projects 8. Gather, categorize, and evaluate
information from Multiple Sources-take notes and
paraphrase 9. Text Evidence to support Analysis,
Reflection and Researchcompare 2 books, compare
2 settings/characters/problems, etc OR explain
how author supports his/her points/argument.
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Good Writing Begins With Good Conversation!

• 1. Begins with teacher directed first
• Push students elaborate-to notice
• Encourage complete sentences and the use of
  academic/content vocabulary
• Predictions about content/vocabulary
• 2. Teacher directed between students
• Model read-then think and talk using Index card
• Key vocabulary predictions and evaluations
• 3. Small group conversations without teacher
• Use Index card, chart paper-silent talk, sentence
  frame cards
• Key vocabulary predictions and evaluations
• Organize key concepts/vocabulary to create
  thoughts
• 4. Later, inner conversation with self
• Notes, drawings, journals, graphic organizers
• 5. Lastly, the conversation ends up on paper!

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Power Writes!

• What is it?
• 5 min of writing for every segment of the day
• Brief, intense, focused bursts of writing in
  every subject area including small group
  instruction
• Various forms (letters, descriptions, lists,
  poems, responses to reading, summaries,
  directions, etc.)
• Why?
• To remember, to think, to understand
• Increases retention and understanding
• Supports academic vocabulary

Guided Reading/Reading Response/ Graphic
Organizers http//teacher.depaul.edu/ CCSS
Toolkit-formative assessment/question
stems/content writing/etc http//teacher.depaul.ed
u/Documents/CommonCoreToolkit_000.pdf
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CCSS Style Notes

• A ___________ is like ____________________
  (connection)
• It __________________________________________
  (fact)
• I think__________________________________________
  Try it out! (interpretation)
• Ex
• A herons beak is like a fork.
• It stabs food.
• I think it must be cool to always have a fork
  ready!

I think I wonder I feel
Understandings I noticed Interpretation Why? How? I think Connections This is like


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• Winter is like
• Weather is like
• Multiplying is like
• Common core is like
• Counting is like
• Writing is like
• Presidents are like

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RAN Strategy(Reading Analyzing Nonfiction)
Printables http//www.wsd1.org/Wellington/Documen
ts/DLC/R.A.N20Writing20Frames.pdf
READING AND ANALYZING NON-FICTION (RAN) CHARTS
RAN Chart.pdf RAN CHART LABELS.pdf http//el
a-ccss.pds-hrd.wikispaces.net/file/view/RANforKd
gAnimalsSM.pdf Ran charts
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Two Word Summary

• After Reading
• What? Help students synthesize information/learnin
  g-used with fiction or informational text.
• How?
• READ or listen to information/story/poem/drama
• Write 2 words about the text/video/audio
• Turn to partner and read their words and explain
  their selections
• Write a sentence (2-3 if a longer piece of text)
  and underline the two words selected in the
  writing.
• Share writing with a partner.

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• What Think-INK-Pair-Share
• Similar to Think-Pair-Share but with added
  writing step.
• Increases individual accountability and
  learning.
• How
• Jot down ideas before turning to a partner to
  discuss
• Walk and see who understands the concept
  (formative assessment).
• Share responses with partner and small/whole
  group
• Probable Passages/Word Splash
• How
• Using a word bank (new/familiar words) students
  write predictive sentences. After instruction,
  they evaluate and revise these sentences.

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Power Writes

• Activity
• Students write for 60 seconds about a topic, or
  write using as many ____ (adverbs, adjectives,
  sensory imagery etc.)
• Circle all of the __ and set a goal before they
  write again
• After another 60 seconds-see if they met or beat
  their goal 
• Evaluate-did they meet the goal? Fall short? How?
• Example
• Teach about onomatopoeia/alliteration/even
  numbers/habitats. Students write as many examples
  of onomatopoeia or___ as they can in one minute.
• After 1st round, students count examples of
  onomatopoeia or_____
• Set a goal for the next round.
• Evaluate-did they meet the goal? Fall short? How?
• Add to list from group/class
• NOW YOU try!

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Sketch to Stretch

• After Reading
• What? Children quickly draw what they know and
  then turn to someone close to them and show and
  tell about their understanding of a text.
• How?
• Students read a thought providing story or
  passage
• Students draw (quick sketch) to show
  understanding of text
• Students talk about their drawing with a
  partnerStudents write text to accompany their
  sketch.(Labels, sentences, summary, etc.)
• Or Notes with Pictures pdf

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Writing Across Curriculum w/ Rafts below WAC
SS WAC Science WAC Math
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Journal Response Ideas
Many Graphic Organizers Reading Graphic
Organizers More Organizers
Awesome NF Graphic Organizers pdf
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How to Use RoundingMath Journaling
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T Chart Method
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• Smear Campaign
• Pretend 2 concepts are opposing each other in
  an election
• Create text, brochures, ads, slogans, comics to
  show opposing ideas
• Examples
• Addition vs. Subtraction

Vowels vs. Consonants Adjectives vs.
Nouns Fiction vs. Nonfiction Force vs.
Motion Indians vs. Colonists
Resource http//writingfix.com/PDFs/Comparison_Con
trast/Smear_Campaign.pdf
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Diamante Poems (Compare/Contrast)
rain forest damp, dark raining, dripping,
steaming monkey, jaguar, frog, anaconda climbing,
stalking, slinking furry scaled endangered . Noun
Adjective Adjective Participle participle
participle Noun noun noun noun Participle
participle participle Adjective
Adjective Noun Evaluating Weather Proverbs -
Myth or Science? http//lstalessons.wikispaces.com
/EvaluatingWeather-Proverbs2CTornadoesandth
eWeatherman
Diamante Biography Diamond Poem Form
Templates for Many Writing Types
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I AM POEMS After reading(ie. Write the poem
as if they are Ruby from The Story of Ruby
Bridges) or they could take the role of a person
or object from a cross-curricular subject (ie.
Write the poem as if they are a Gas after
studying the States of Matter). I AM POEM I
am (name) I see (what do you see around
you) I hear (sounds you hear) I need (something
you need) I feel (how do you feel inside) I
fear (something that you fear) I cry (something
that makes you sad) I believe (something that you
believe in ) I dream (something you dream
about) I am (repeat first line)
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More Ideas
Writing Letters Students write letters to others,
including elected officials, family members,
friends, people who made a difference. Ex
Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King about the
progress we have made on racism since his
death. Business Letter Form Online Letter
Generator   Take a Stand Students discuss their
opinions about a controversial topic-Exwhat
caused the dinosaurs to become extinct- an
asteroid, or a volcano? What If
Scenarios  Students respond to prompts in which
information is changed from what they know, and
they predict outcomes. Ex students may be asked
to respond to the question, What would be
different if honeybees disappeared? Write a
Play Students write about content in play form.
Sample Blank Script
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Remember MLK JR? Write a 1 page report. What
students do- Copy!
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Informational WritingUsing Mentor Texts
4th Grade http//www.albany.k12.or.us/departments/
instruction/documents/writing_elementary/Anchor20
Papers/Writing_Binder_Grade_4_Section_4.pdf 5th
Grade http//www.pps.k12.or.us/files/curriculum/G5
_Informational_Article_1-12-10_to_post.pdf
Lesson Lists F/NF all grades http//www.lausd.net/
Corona_EL/Mentor_Text.html
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All About Kayaking pdf
All About Penguins pdf
How To Make Braids pdf

CCSS Writing Samples K-5 Link
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Reports and More...
Click on Docstoc for downloadable
template http//aplacecalledkindergarten.blogspot.
com/2011/04/nonfiction-writing-try-its.html
Nonfiction conventions chart.doc Download
ALL GRADES Writing Units Grade K-5 pdf
All about reports http//timmonstimes.blogspot.com
/2007/12/all-about.html
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Persuade People to..Be a FirefighterSave a
BearUse Arrays to Solve ProblemsRecycle

• OREO Template
• http//blog.wsd.net/ebonnemort/files/2012/04/Persu
  asive-Writing-Oreo-and-4square-.pdf
• Persuasive Words/Phrases
• http//www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/files/persu
  asivewordsphrases.pdf
• Sample Lessons with 4 Square
• http//jc-schools.net/writeaway/canned-lesson.ppt
• http//www.greenville.k12.sc.us/taylorse/About/Wri
  ting20for20Everyone.pdf

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Additional Suggestions

• Writing Prompts - Discovery has excellent
  resources/writing prompts. Students can respond
  to images and videos about content material.
  UseTruetube for thinking and debating
  controversial topics.
• B. Blogging - Blog about their learning and
  ideas about content . Wordpress, Blogger
• C. Ebooks - Create online books and share them
  with you online. Lulu Mixbook Storybird
• D. Wikis - Students to design and collaborate on
  wikis and discussions about content material.
  Wikispaces and Wetpaint and EduBlog
• E. Desktop Publishing - create brochures,
  newsletters, presentations letterpop on content
  material.
• F. Found Poetry Pull words/phrases to make
  poems example
• More examples Directions

99 Types of Non-Fiction Writing.doc
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Using Technology Make Writing Meaningful
Storybird - www.storybird.com -create a page
turning book with illustrations and text that is
available online.Story Jumper -
www.storyjumper.com - create page turning,
illustrated books, using various backgrounds,
characters, props and images. (Up to 16 pages)
Free to see online. Pay for hard copy!Voki -
www.voki.com Create a talking avatar-select
from a variety of avatars or make your own and
then record narration by either typing text,
speaking in a microphone or calling it in on a
phone. Blabberize http//www.blabberize.com/
Upload a picture an create a simple animation of
the mouth moving to the sound of the voice.
Example Biography Glogster - www.glogster.com -
Import image, audio, video, or link from YouTube,
URL, etc. Tools also for recording audio/video.
Create "glogs" or posters with media, text tools,
frames for media, layer media. ZooBurst
-digital storytelling tool that lets anyone
easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.
Example
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John F. Kennedy 1917-1963
John F. Kennedy 1917-1963
John F. Kennedy 1917-1963
John F. Kennedy 1917-1963
Image from Library of Congress
Image from Library of Congress
Image from Library of Congress
Image from Library of Congress

• Irish descent
• Graduated from Harvard
• Served in Navy
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Assassinated in Dallas
• "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask
  what you can do for your country. JFK

• Irish descent
• Graduated from Harvard
• Served in Navy
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Assassinated in Dallas
• "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask
  what you can do for your country. JFK

• Irish descent
• Graduated from Harvard
• Served in Navy
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Assassinated in Dallas
• "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask
  what you can do for your country. JFK

• Irish descent
• Graduated from Harvard
• Served in Navy
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Assassinated in Dallas
• "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask
  what you can do for your country. JFK

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Photo StoryWhat is it?

• a software for creating digital stories
• Uses pictures, music, voice, transitions, and
  effects to make stories come to life
• Tutorial Photo Story Tutorial
•  Microsoft Photo Story 3 free to download
• More information
• http//schools.spsd.sk.ca/curriculum/techyteacher/
  category/photostory/
• Examples

http//splatypus.blogspot.com/2011/02/all-about-wi
nter.html http//www.eaglepnt.k12.or.us/Files/Char
les20Lindbergh.wmv http//www.eaglepnt.k12.or.us/
Files/Flat20Stanley.wmv http//www.eaglepnt.k12.o
r.us/Files/Our20Snow20Day_1.wmv http//www.eagle
pnt.k12.or.us/Files/What20Bird20is20It.wmv http
//www.booktrailersforreaders.com/Stellaluna http
//www.booktrailersforreaders.com/Swindle http//ww
w.schooltube.com/video/74f5e57dda2d4f43aa33/ http
//www.schooltube.com/video/fb7d295c32c04771a40b/ h
ttp//schools.spsd.sk.ca/brightwater/?page_id40 h
ttp//www.aliaradesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010
/04/Slavery.wmv
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What Do You Do with Writing Once You Get It?

• Respond To give informal reactions to text.
• Assess To see how a students, or a classs,
  body of work lines up with program or
  institutional objectives.
• Evaluate To compare work with some sort of
  marker, benchmark, or standard.
• Grade To condense all data into one symbol.

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Some Evaluation Options

• Credit/No credit
• Read and possibly share with class
• Accept/Revise
• Rubric (for 1 or more than one criteria/ 6 1
  Traits)
• Self /Peer Evaluate
• Group Evaluation
• Improvementpull worst and best
• Not every thing has to be gradedbut
• a little feedback much improvement!

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Modeling, Modeling Modeling
Sharing and Publishing
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Silent Gallery Walk

• Work with a GROUP/PARTNER/INDEPENDENTLY to
• Choose 4 writing activities/strategies
• Write them in the center of a page
• Around the activity/strategy list as many ways
  you can think of for using that strategy-plus, as
  many content areas as you can work it into
• Label the content areas (Math, Science, Spelling,
  Reading, Grammar, Social Studies, etc)
• Count them and put the number in a circle in the
  upper right corner!

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Hot Seat

• Before the beginning of class, the teacher
  prepares 4-5 questions related to the topic of
  study and writes them on sticky notes.
• Place the sticky notes underneath student desks
  so they are hidden from view.
• At beginning of class, inform students that
  several of them are sitting in Hot Seats and
  will be asked to answer the questions.
• Have the students check their desks for the
  strategically placed sticky notes.
• Students who are in the Hot Seats take turns
  answering the questions.

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Recount Writing

• Purpose To retell past events usually told in
  the order (sequence) in which they occurred
• Examples of Recount Writing
• A School Trip
• A Science Experiment
• A Current Event

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Explanatory Writing

• Purpose To explain how and why something
  happens or works often combined with report or
  recount writing
• Examples of Explanatory Writing
• Describe how the cotton gin works.
• Answer the question What causes rust to develop?
• Explain the key factors that caused WWII.

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Procedural Writing

• Purpose To instruct others how to carry out a
  process or procedure
• Examples of Procedural Writing
• How to get to my house
• A favorite recipe
• How to make a model
• Rules for games
• A science experiment
• The steps in solving a Math problem

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Persuasive Writing

• Purpose To persuade others to a particular
  point of view, not necessarily ones own
• Examples of Persuasive Writing
• Create advertising posters
• Make up jingles
• Write speeches for a debate
• Write a book or movie review
• Write a Letter to the Editor
• Create a book or movie trailer video