Content Connection: How to Integrate Thinking and Writing in the Content Areas, Grades 4-8 Book

Assignments challenge students to process their knowledge of subject content in new and different ways. First, students apply specific higher - level thinking skills to organize their thoughts and ideas. Then, they write in a wide variety of formats for different audiences and from different points of view. They will write poems about animals, editorials about the environment, speeches on safety, scripts for movie scenes, magazine interviews with literary character, and even an advertisement for horses aimed at the Plains Indians.