This video lesson focuses on how to read and understand a writing assignment. It begins by defining keywords used in assignments: analyze, compare and contrast, evaluate, describe, and propose. Then using a sample assignment, it...

This Gates Foundation video stresses the importance of literacy to student success in all content areas. It shows the Gates LDC instruction module in graphic form and in action.

This video provides a rationale for writing across the curriculum. Multiple lists of writing ideas for different subject area are included. [5:41] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.10 Write routinely over extended time frames