Using Social Studies to Improve Student Writing

The Research Shows Series:  Teaching Writing and Social Studies – Writing Across the Curriculum Are you looking to improve your students’ writing? If so, you want to have your students writing across the curriculum. Furthermore, you want to be teaching writing while...

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Evaluating Student Writing

The Research Shows Series: Responding to and Evaluating Student Writing How do you respond to and evaluate student writing? Rubrics? Checklists? Peer review and evaluation? A straight 6-traits rubric? A holistic 6-traits rubric? Do you focus on mechanics or content?...

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Connecting Reading and Writing

The Research Shows Series: The Reading / Writing Connection The Reading/Writing connection – we all know it exists! But how are they connected? How do we connect them? Welcome to “The Research Shows” series where you will get a quick overview on what the research...

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