Do you spend entirely too much time correcting your students' papers? - Do your students' essays and term papers take side trips to nowhere? - Is their writing riddled with mechanical errors?- Do their lab reports and essays lack specificity and clarity? Writing in the Content Areas, Second Edition is for middle and high school content area teachers who assign essays, term papers, lab reports, and other writing tasks to students. This book provides strategies and tips to help teachers of social studies, science, art, etc. improve the quality of students' writing and apply national and state curriculum standards in your classroom. The strategies in this book can be integrated easily into every teacher's daily plans. They will help your students improve their abilities to –- reflect before writing - organize and classify - provide detail without padding - use technical terminology correctly - avoid unnecessary words - spell correctly- take useful notes while they read and during your lectures This book will help teachers --- get what they want from a writing task - frame their assignments more precisely - correct student papers more quickly and efficiently The new second edition offers activities and strategies which involve technology (word processing, presentation programming, the Internet, and e-communications), differentiated instruction, and brain-based learning .
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Writing In The Content Areas was written for middle and high school content area classroom teachers who assign essays, term papers, lab reports, and other writing tasks to their students. In concise and clear subject area language, Amy Benjamin provides strategies and techniques that will enable teachers of social studies, sciences, the humanities, etc. improve the quality of their students' writing in accordance with state and national curriculum standards. Writing In The Content Areas is an invaluable addition to teacher education curriculum resources and an practical, "user friendly" resource for the practicing classroom teacher.
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Let's begin by saying that if you are not an English teacher, I don't expect you to become one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formal academic voice, writing center teacher, content area teachers, content area writing, spice trade routes, formal research papers, task verb, parenthetical citations, holistic scoring, contrast statement, brief bio, sentence stems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Let's begin by saying that if you are not an English teacher, I don't expect you to become one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formal academic voice, writing center teacher, content area teachers, content area writing, spice trade routes, formal research papers, task verb, parenthetical citations, holistic scoring, contrast statement, brief bio, sentence stems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World War, Age of Exploration, Friar Lawrence, Keith Haring, Lewis Thomas, Supreme Court, The American Presidency, Winston Churchill, African American Vernacular English, Benito Mussolini, Eamon De Valera, Henry Ford New!
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- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 131
- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on page 131
- The Way Things Work by David Macaulay on page 96
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- Differentiated Instruction Using Technology: A Guide for Middle & HS Teachers by Amy Benjamin in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- ENGLISH TEACHER'S GUIDE TO PERFORM. TASKS & RUBRICS: High School by Amy Benjamin in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Writing in the Content Areas by Amy Benjamin in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- An English Teacher's Guide to Performance Tasks and Rubrics: Middle School by Amy Benjamin in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening by Heidi Hayes Jacobs on page 68, and Back Matter
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