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

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

• Ready-to-go lesson plans focused on relevant, world-of-work writing tasks and formats
• An overarching rubric of key skills as