Writing  Across the Curriculum

A Document for Instructional and Literacy Coaches

          Imagine  every teacher in a school sharing common language, the same metaphors for teaching the fundamentals of the writing process! All teachers work together to improve and reinforce students' schema for what it means to create a focused thesis statement and to support it with appropriate ideas, sentences, paragraphs.

  When a student enters  math class, science, social studies, physical education, art, and/or music, each teacher uses the same terms to instruct students. All teachers should be responsible for reading and writing because students need to be able to write knowledgeably about science, sports, music, art, and math. Writing is not the strict domain of the English teacher.

What if parents used the same bank of terms when reading/reviewing their students papers at home?

          The three documents in the frames were developed by me for teachers in some of the middle and high schools I served as a literacy coach. In some schools, the teachers worked with a computer teacher to make the PowerPoint  more user friendly for parents and teachers.

Feel free to set up a wiki and revise the documents  to suit your situation. P.S I had to save the script for the PowerPoint in a separate document (compatibility issues).