ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we describe methods for teaching argumentative, informational, and explanatory reading and writing, three forms that serve as the basis of the CCSS informational reading and writing standards. In doing so, we posit the need to go beyond an approach to teaching writing that focuses on teaching the formal structures to a literacy practice perspective where meaningful curriculum and critically engaging classroom activities and events provide the context for thoughtful writing, as Anne Bawarshi (2003) notes in the introductory quote, as “way[s] of being and acting in the world in a particular time and place in relation to others.”
