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Disciplinary Literacy: Reading and Writing Across Content Areas

Doug Fisher www.fisherandfrey.com

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The established

purpose

focuses on

student

learning, rather

than an activity,

assignment, or task.

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Students

understand the

relevance

of the established

purpose.

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…making connections between the

subject and its application outside of the

classroom walls.

Relevance

requires…

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Relevance

requires…

…opportunities to

learn about oneself as

a learner.

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Relevance

requires…

… learning for

learning’s sake.

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Three Questions

What am I learning today?

Why am I learning this?

How will I know that I

have learned it?

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Disciplinary

Literacy

Intermediate Literacy

Basic Literacy

Increasing Specialization of Literacy

Shanahan & Shanahan, 2008

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Modeling Challenging Tasks

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Modeling While Reading

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Modeling

Comprehension

• Inference

• Summarize

• Predict

• Clarify

• Question

• Visualize

• Monitor

• Synthesize

• Evaluate

• Connect

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Word Solving

• Context clues

• Word parts (prefix, suffix, root, base,

cognates)

• Resources (others, Internet, dictionary)

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Using Text Structure

• Informational Texts

• Problem/Solution, Compare/Contrast,

Sequence, Cause/Effect, Description

• Narrative Texts

• Story grammar (plot, setting, character)

• Dialogue

• Literary devices

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Using Text Features

• Headings

• Captions

• Illustrations

• Charts

• Graphs

• Bold words

• Table of contents

• Glossary

• Index

• Tables

• Margin notes

• Italicized words

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Difficulty v. Complexity

Difficulty

• A measure of effort required to complete a task.

• In assessment, a function of how many people can complete the task correctly.

Complexity

• A measure of the thinking, action, or knowledge that is needed to complete the task.

• In assessment, how many different ways can the task be accomplished.

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Which of these means about the

same as the word gauge?

a. balance

b. measure

c. select

d. warn

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A car odometer registered 41,256.9 miles when a highway

sign warned of a detour 1,200 feet ahead. What will the

odometer read when the car reaches the detour? (5,280 feet

= 1 mile)

(a) 42,456.9

(b) 41,279.9

(c) 41,261.3

(d) 41,259.2

(e) 41,257.1

Did you use the calculator on this question?

Yes No

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In 2007, David Farrow

broke the Guinness

Record for Greatest

Memory by

memorizing and

correctly recalling the

exact order of 59

decks of cards - that’s

3068 cards in total –

after looking at them

only one time!

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Easy Hard

Less Complex

Low Difficulty High Complexity

High Difficulty High Complexity

Low Difficulty Low Complexity

High Difficulty Low Complexity

More Complex

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