Writing Across the Curriculum in Secondary Classrooms Teaching from a Diverse Perspective

Based on a need to teach writing and thinking across the curriculum, Harriet Scarborough worked with a number of her esteemed colleagues and practical thinking middle school and secondary school teachers to create a text for today's diverse classrooms. The author and her text contributors met regularly for a year to identify what was working in the classroom. They offer this book to you as you look to: give voice to the use of writing to mediate learning develop writing contexts for learning in content area classes create writing environments conducive t risk-taking make learning relevant and authentic for ALL studentsScarborough, Harriet A. is the author of 'Writing Across the Curriculum in Secondary Classrooms Teaching from a Diverse Perspective', published 2000 under ISBN 9780130224897 and ISBN 0130224898.