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Want to learn more or plan a lesson? Check out these links!
- Reading Comprehension Home
- Making Connections
- Fluency
- Determining Importance
- Inferring
- Metacognition
- Questioning
- Synthesizing
- Visualizing and Imagery
- Vocabulary and Word Identification
- Writing Across the Curriculum
Important UNCG Links
Writing Across the Curriculum
- About Writing Across the Curriculum
- Professional Books to help you develop lesson plans
- Books about Writing for Children and Young Adults
- Children’s Books Written in a Letter or Journal Format
- Books about Children's Authors
- Some Helpful Web sites
Writing Across the Curriculum:
Writing across the curriculum means that students write about all subjects. In other words, you can teach writing so that writing is applicable with all subjects, including reading comprehension (Hoyt, 2005). Reading and writing are related; by applying all of the reading comprehension strategies to writing the students will simultaneously become both better readers and better writers (Duffy, 2003).
Reference:
Duffy, G.G. (2003). Explaining Reading: A resource for teaching concepts, skills, and strategies. New York: Guilford Press.
Hoyt, L. (2005). Spotlight on comprehension: Building a literacy of thoughtfulness. Portsmouth, N.H: Heinemann Books.
Quotes:
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.
1(McKinley, R. 2007)
If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.
2(Benjamin Franklin, as quoted in Smith, L. (2006). John, Paul, George, & Ben – end page)
1McKinley, R. (2007). Quotes about Writing. Retrieved on April 24, 2007 from http://koti.mbnet.fi/pasenka/quotes/q-writ.htm#The%20reader
2Smith, L. (2006). John, Paul, George & Ben. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.