Teaching Writing Genres Across the Curriculum

This volume showcases the efforts of real teachers using the teaching events from real middle school classrooms. Included is thework of eight hard-working middle school teachers who are convinced that the form and function of genre is a way to teach writing acrossthe middle school curriculum. Each chapter contains sample lessons protocols classroom instructional materials and assessment tools toprovide middle school teachers with an approach to explore rigorous expository writing instruction in their own classrooms.