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		Ten Essential Vocabulary Strategies Books 3 & 4 Grades 6–7 Vocabulary is the key to reading comprehension! Help students develop critical strategies for unlocking the meaning of unfamiliar words in context. MORE INFO » Game Plan: A Sourcebook for Teaching Word Study Strategies Grades 4–8 Build word study skills in a way that allows for collaborative work and immediate feedback. MORE INFO » Just Write: Creativity and Craft in Writing, Book 3 Grade 4 This classroom-tested resource helps students become confident, expressive writers. MORE INFO » Writing Skills Books 1 and 2 Grades 5–8 These newly revised student books provide integrated instruction in grammar and writing. MORE INFO »

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In the current educational literature and in classrooms across the world, much attention is being paid to reading in the content areas. But how is writing across the curriculum being addressed? Instead of viewing it as an add-on task of lesser importance, we see it as a wonderful opportunity to integrate several skills and processes into a single activity.

We’ve learned that writing in the subject areas helps students process what they are learning, as well as express the depth of their knowledge in the subjects they are studying. In addition, consider some of the other benefits that writing across the curriculum provides:

• It helps students practice and apply literacy skills in a variety of ways.
  
• It helps students understand new vocabulary needed for reading comprehension.
  
• It helps students learn to organize and present written information.
  
• It helps students improve their ability to take tests and meet state standards.

Effective writing across the curriculum engages students in thinking before they write and then organizing their thoughts and applying their knowledge and skills in new ways. It also reinforces the value of students’ thoughts and writing, especially when there is a meaningful response by a teacher or parent, and when the writing becomes part of a permanent collection. Moreover, when the writing is shared with classmates who also learn from it and value it, there is further reinforcement as well as effective modeling of the learning and writing processes.

Of course, content-area writing also supports content-area learning. It helps students focus on and remember more content-area information, teaches them how to prepare written responses to content-area text, and engages the students in creatively demonstrating what they have learned. It also generates feelings of ownership of the material, because anything you put into words becomes yours, and that in turn leads to increased competence, confidence, and willingness to learn.

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Writing instruction should begin as early as possible and continue throughout a student’s education. EPS offers programs for writers at every stage of development, with materials for the beginning, struggling, and skillful writers in your classroom.

	Writing Skills Diana Hanbury King Grades 2–12 For the reluctant, at-risk, and beginning writer, this comprehensive program provides an essential foundation in thinking and writing skills. For the proficient and advanced, it offers strategies, techniques, and opportunities to apply them. With special instruction in spelling, handwriting, and keyboarding, the Writing Skills series also addresses important skills that many writing curricula take for granted. The Writing Skills Teacher’s Handbook is an essential resource for all teachers of writing, and can be used in coordination with the student books or as a stand-alone reference. MORE INFO »
	The Paragraph Book Dianne Tucker LaPlount Grades 5–8 This structured, step-by-step approach of The Paragraph Book series gives struggling writers the skills they need to create clear and interesting paragraphs and essays. The series builds writing competency from the ground up—students learn to edit, format, and build paragraphs while mastering 4 basic writing strands required in regular English and content area classes and standards-based state tests. Books available now cover the how-to paragraph, the paragraph that tells a story, and the expository paragraph. MORE INFO »
	Just Write: Creativity and Craft in Writing Elsie S. Wilmerding, Alexandra S. Bigelow Grade 1–4+ Including Write about Me and Write about My World, the Just Write series is a classroom-tested resource that helps students become confident, expressive writers. Students are guided through the writing process from initial idea to final edited and published narrative. Throughout, they are given models to follow and are encouraged to be creative. MORE INFO »
	Words I Use Alana Trisler, Patrice Cardiel Grades K–8 Best Seller! This popular collection of personal dictionaries and journals lets students customize their learning as they improve their spelling, vocabulary, and writing skills. These books can be integrated easily into any curriculum and coordinate well with other EPS writing programs.  MORE INFO »
	Writing across the Curriculum Grades  2–8 These unique social studies, science, and math resources help students learn and retain content-area information while also improving their writing skills. MORE INFO »

Date		Conference Name		Location
September
9/22–24		FCEE		Orlando, FL
9/30–10/02		ACSI Northwest		Portland, OR
October
10/3–5		Michigan LDA		Lansing, MI
10/5		SDE		Harrisburg, PA
10/6–9		Plains Regional IRA		Bismarck-Mandan, ND
10/7–8		ASCI Northern California and Hawaii		Sacramento, CA
10/7–8		NWEA		EaueClaire, WI
10/7–9		Promising Practices		Yakima,WA
10/7–9		CLD		Las Vegas, NV
10/7–8		Idaho IRA		Nampa, ID
10/10–12		Texas ASCD		Corpus Christi, TX
10/13		Greater Boston Reading Council		Burlington, MA
10/14–16		California IDA		Ontario, CA
10/15		New Jersey IDA		Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
10/15–16		Florida Reading Association		Orlando, Fl
10/16		Southland Teachers of English		Ontario, CA
10/16		Pennsylvania LDA		New Cumberland, PA
10/20–22		NJSBA/NJASA		Atlantic City, NJ
10/21–22		Total Catholic Education		Pittsburg, PA
10/21		Mid-America ACSI		Minneapolis, MN
10/21		Education Minnesota		St Paul, MN
10/21–22		NERA		Nashua, NH
10/21–23		NYSMS		Lake Placid, NY
10/22–23		WORD		Seattle, WA
10/23		Georiga LDA		Atlanta, GA
10/25		NJAIS		Livingston, NJ