Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines: K–12 Instructional Support
Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines intends to show more precisely how to ensure opportunities for students to engage in discipline-specific literacies or learning that uses reading and writing skills specific to each field to teach content knowledge, demonstrate content knowledge and publish learning. Text-based writing grounds students in complex, grade-level texts, or “anything that communicates a message” (Interdisciplinary Literacy Practice 1), meaning that students engage with a wide range of multimodal texts across disciplines and grade levels.
This resource includes 40 text-based writing tasks that engage K-12 students in responding to a variety of texts as disciplinary experts do. Use Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines to support the implementation of existing High-Quality Instructional Resources (HQIRs). The tasks should not replace adopted HQIR but should serve to supplement instruction towards the full depth and rigor of the Kentucky Academic Standards.
See the Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines webpage for samples in:
- Writing to Learn,
- Writing to Demonstrate Learning and
- Writing for Publication.
Samples are available for:
- Reading and writing,
- Mathematics,
- Social studies,
- Science and
- Visual/performing arts.
