This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 14 of the Cult of Pedagogy

podcast. In this episode I'm going to give you seven ways to support student

writing in any content area.

Hi thanks so much for downloading and listening. I have a lot of really good

stuff to share with you in this episode but before I do I just want to ask you a

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It helps more than you know. Okay so in this episode we're going to talk about

things that you can do to support student writing in any content area and

primarily I'm talking about people who are non-English language arts

teachers. My personal teaching background is in English language arts. I was a

most of the time middle school language arts teacher and the idea of helping

students improve their writing in other areas is not really a new one. It used

to just be called reading and writing across the content or across the

curriculum but when the Common Core came along in the United States anyway it

became a requirement. Within the Common Core standards for English language

arts there was a section called literacy in history, social studies, science

and technical subjects and by technical subjects they mean anything that is

not English language arts so it can be a PE class or a life skills class or

pretty much anything. It doesn't necessarily have to be technical but what this

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