Writing & Reading Across the Curriculum  

(Grades 7-12)

Helping our middle and high school students express themselves through writing across the curriculum is critical.  Dr. Shields will share robust, engaging activities, tools, and strategies to facilitate content literacy, as well as meet the individualized needs and interests of our students. Participants will receive hands-on training, as well as ready-to-use classroom presentations, rubrics, and lessons.

Slides  2022 (F2F- Let's TWIRL, grades 5-12)

PPT 2021 (Virtual)

PPT 2020 (F2F) 

Handout

Rubric Worksheet: Use this worksheet to create a rubric for an assignment in a course you teach.

Rubric Examples and Worksheet from Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Making and Using a Rubric

K20 Learn WRAC Activities: https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/strategies

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Writing Across Curriculum: Tried and True Lessons Students (and Teachers) Will Love!

Activities that Promote Interdisciplinary Writing

Melissa Shields, Ed.D., NBCT

 

Training Handout

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ARI Resources to Teach Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum (MEGA 2017) 

Brainstreams/Sponges (All Disciplines)

Six Steps to Writing(All Disciplines)

 
Speechless Interviews (History, Science, Reading, English) - See handout for additional materials.

Rap Songs (All Disciplines) 

Mad / Soft / Fast Talk (History, Reading, English) 

Walking Across America Activity (Math, History, Reading, English) 

Informative Quilt and Rubric (History, Science, Reading, English) See Handout above.

Bio in a Bag” (History, Science, Reading, English) See handout above.

Life Graphs (Math, English, History, Science, Reading) See handout above.

Interdisciplinary Journals (All Disciplines) See handout above.

Grading Time Savers (All Disciplines) See handout above.

Math Journals/Activities (Math, Reading, English) See handout above.

Harry Noden’s “Brushstroke Writing”(History, Science, Reading, English)