Collaborative Teaching to Encourage Disciplinary Literacy

Teacher Collaboration to Encourage Disciplinary Literacy

• The new science and social studies standards integrate rigorous expectations in regards to disciplinary literacy . How can your ELA teachers assist with this process? How does this also impact their teaching of skills and strategies?

• How difficult is it to get collaboration between departments to occur in your middle and high schools? Is it an organic process, or is it something that must be encouraged and taught?

• Do your teachers understand the difference between content area literacy and disciplinary literacy? Why is that important?

Teacher Collaboration to Encourage Disciplinary Literacy

Do your teachers understand the difference between content area literacy and disciplinary literacy? Why is that important?

Content Area Literacy Disciplinary Literacy

study skills that can be used to help students learn from subject matter specific texts

emphasis on the knowledge and abilities possessed by those who create, communicate, and use knowledge within the disciplines

emphasizes techniques that a novice might use to make sense of a disciplinary text

emphasizes the unique tools that the experts in a discipline use to engage in the work of that discipline

prescribes study techniques and reading approaches that can help someone to comprehend or to remember text better (with little regard to type of text)

emphasizes the description of unique uses and implications of literacy use within the various disciplines

“What is Disciplinary Literacy and Why Does It Matter?” By Cynthia and Timothy Shanahan

Teacher Collaboration to Encourage Disciplinary Literacy

How difficult is it to get collaboration between departments to occur in your middle and high schools? Is it an organic process, or is it something that must be encouraged and taught?

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Teacher Collaboration to Encourage Disciplinary Literacy

The new science and social studies standards integrate rigorous expectations in regards to disciplinary literacy . How can your ELA teachers assist with this process? How does this also impact their teaching of skills and strategies?

Connections offers the perfect environment for teaching close reading strategies and skills. Units are designed around an essential question that supports students in making • text-to-text, • text-to-self, and • text-to-world connections as they practice the skills and strategies needed to navigate complex texts.

Students can then apply those strategies and skills to other materials they are reading in the classroom as well as texts they will read in preparation for college

and career.

Literature & Thought assists teachers in creating meaningful discussions that draw from conversational language that includes academic vocabulary. It is a tool for teachers to teach students how to be critical thinkers through a unique questioning strategy supporting close reading of complex texts.

• informational text

• fiction text to support a

theme and/ or idea

• close reading strategies

• writing to sources

• critical thinking

• appropriate text complexity

• text dependent questions

and tasks

Name Website

Great Books Foundation www.greatbooks.org

Edutopia www.edutopia.org

Keys to Literacy Blog https://keystoliteracy.com

Infographics Archive www.infographicsarchive.com/

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PLC Connections Teaching with Tech/ Integrated OERs

PLC Novel Studies www.perfectionlearning.com/customer/teacher-resource-library/

PLC Lit and Thought Interactive Whiteboard Lessons

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Literature & Thought and novel studies provide the texts needed for students to apply the skills and strategies they are mastering. Sports’ analogy ....Literature & Thought is PLAYING the game!

Connections is not about the content itself. It is about providing a rich environment of complex texts for explicit, integrated close reading instruction. Students can practice close reading skills and strategies needed for evaluating and analyzing texts. Sports’ analogy … Connections is the PRACTICE needed to win the game!

Connections is the perfect solution for helping students become experts at navigating complex texts, such as the ones found in Literature & Thought and other sources!

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