Here is a link to my archived webinar titled “A Best-Practices Instructional Routine for Writing in the Content Areas”...

I marvel at my friends who are able to use technology with ease to accomplish these same tasks. For me, the act of “putting pencil to paper” helps me process content much more deeply. All of my life, I attributed this to my learning style, but I recently read an article in The Atlantic that gave validity to my preferred method of note taking.....

Here’s what you will find at the Looking at Writing section of the Reading Rockets website:

• Writing samples from real kids
• Advice about instruction based on samples
• Guidance on writing assessment
• Writing resources
• Videos of nationally recognized experts on writing instruction

The information is organized by grade level, starting with PreK and ending with grade 3....

If so, you will want to review the Institute of Education Science’s practice guide, Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School (Baker et al, 2014).

The guide is IES’s first upgrade for ELLs since 2007 and it is aligned to the Common Core literacy standards. It expands the scope to middle school and shifts the focus away from “beginning reading” and early reading intervention to academic language and academic vocabulary......