ABSTRACT
The Common Core State Standards require schools to include writing in a variety of genres across the disciplines. Engaging Students in Academic Literacies provides specific information to plan and carry out genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas. Informed by systemic functional linguistics—a theory of language IN USE in particular ways for particular audiences and social purposes—it guides teachers in developing students’ ability to construct texts using structural and linguistic features of the written language. This approach to teaching writing and academic language is effective in addressing the persistent achievement gap between ELLs and "mainstream" students, especially in the context of current reforms in the U.S. Transforming systemic functional linguistics and genre theory into concrete classroom tools for designing, implementing, and reflecting on instruction and providing essential scaffolding for teachers to build their own knowledge of its essential elements applied to teaching, the text includes strategies for apprenticing students to writing in all genres, features of elementary students’ writing, and examples of practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |66 pages
Content and Pedagogy
chapter |17 pages
Principles for Practice
chapter |26 pages
Teaching and Assessing Writing
chapter |21 pages
Language Resources that Support Writing
part |277 pages
Genres
chapter |30 pages
Procedures
chapter |65 pages
Recounts and Historical Genres
chapter |48 pages
Reports
chapter |42 pages
Explanations
chapter |41 pages
Arguments
chapter |47 pages
Fictional Narratives
part |3 pages
Conclusion