The Adolescent Literacy KnowledgeBase : Element 4 : Activity 1 : Task 3: Instill Through Writing
To do well in school, adolescent students need to write well. To become good writers, it is important to practice writing. For example, young adolescents can develop their skills by writing about something they know, about themselves, and about their communities. Possessing an awareness of techniques that enhance writing skills can help fourth and fifth grade teachers improve adolescent literacy.
This link is to ReadWriteThink, a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation. This website includes lessons (by grades, title, or literacy connection), student materials, and resources.
This link is to a Teaching Today website exploring how to integrate writing in the mathematics classroom.
This section of Literacy Matters provides information on writing to learn and writing to demonstrate knowledge.
As noted at its website, "The National Writing Project is a professional development network that serves teachers of writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects."
This link to the Carnegie Corporation of New York's report on Writing Next offers 11 elements found to be effective in helping adolescent students of all ages learn to write well. A synopsis of this document is available through the Center on Instruction.
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