Discusses the premises that guide the teaching of reading in content areas, the vast array of reading strategies available, and how to use this information to impact all learners.

The third in a series on content area writing instruction, this booklet is intended for high school teachers who have taught writing, but who want to move into content writing topics and for teachers who are novices at teaching writing but who think content writing instruction might be an important skill to teach their students. The three sections of the booklet demonstrate how content area instruction can be integrated into existing curricula, enhancing instruction rather than being a separate component. The first section offers some basic principles and procedures that show how to start content writing in the classroom. The second section offers specific model units and lessons. The third section, concerned with applications and extensions, shows teachers how to move beyond the sample lessons to develop specific materials for their own classrooms and includes a discussion of evaluation and grading of content area writing. (HTH)

College instructors concerned about student writing quality are provided with information on writing in the content areas and writing across the curriculum. Following an overview of writing in the content area, the chapters focus on writing and learning--"workaday" writing (personalizing knowledge through writing, forms of workaday writing, other workaday forms, and workaday writing and inquiry learning); writing projects in the disciplines (assignment making and the writing process from assignment to writing); evaluating writing (evaluation in process, grading content writing, the issue of correctness, and a note on evaluation through writing); examples of content writing projects (the QUEST program, teaching science writing, thinking before writing in public relations, social action portfolio, landscape history, simulations and case studies, science dialogues, consumer reports, and interdisciplinary humanities); Writing across the Curriculum programs (Michigan Technological University, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, State University College of New York at Fredonia, The University of Michigan, and Montana State University); and faculty workshops (writing and teaching). Contains 106 reference. (SM)