As the amount of curriculum in today’s classrooms expands and teaching time seems to shrink, teachers are looking for ways to integrate content area and writing instruction. In this revised and expanded edition of Writing Across the Curriculum, Shelley Peterson shows teachers how to weave writing and content area instruction together in their classrooms. The author provides practical and helpful ideas for classroom teachers and content-area specialists to easily incorporate writer’s workshop while teaching in their subject area. New features in this second edition include: • internet websites that can be used to teach writing (e.g., wiki’s, weblogs, and digital storytelling) • examples from grades 4-8 classrooms that show how science, social studies, health, and mathematics teachers can also be teachers of poetry, narrative, and non-narrative writing • new assessment scoring guides • information on working with struggling writers and supporting English Language Learners • graphic organizers, templates, and mini-lessons that engage students in learning

Shelley Peterson is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/University of Toronto. A former elementary teacher in Alberta, Shelley now teaches pre-service and graduate courses in literacy and children’s literature. Her research interests include socio-cultural issues in writing and writing assessment, teacher action research, and teaching writing using digital technology and multimedia.

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Harvey Daniels a former classroom teacher and college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education. He has authored Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, Minilessons for Literature Circles, and coauthored Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide. He is also coauthor of Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools. Daniels works with elementary and secondary teachers throughout the North America, and Europe.

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