Teaching Writing From Content Classroom to Career, Grades 6-12

by Maria C. Grant, Diane K. Lapp, Marisol Thayre

Teaching writing that is relevant to your students and their futures What kind of writing do we do beyond school? It certainly isn’t the well-known  five-paragraph essay or tight iambic pentameter. In today’s workforce, the purpose of writing is to communicate complex ideas specific to career fields. Students need more than simply mastering academic writing, so  Teaching Writing From Content Classroom to Career  shows how to combine writing instruction teachers already share – language selection, tone, voice, audience, organization, and style – with meaningful writing tasks so students can connect classroom writing to the world of their work and their futures. Authors Maria C. Grant, Diane Lapp, and Marisol Thayre explain ways to show students how writing works in the world of work with Full of tools, resources, and strategies that are easy to implement and seamlessly overlay school writing curriculum, this book sets students on the path to academic and career success through writing.

200 pages, Paperback

Published December 14, 2023

Reviews

[Sbwisni · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked how they framed writing in terms of workplace writing skills, especially in terms of seeking out models. Came away with good ideas to use in the classroom. Provides lots of useful examples, thinkalouds, rubrics, graphic organizers, etc.