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What is disciplinary literacy?
Disciplinary Literacy: Teaching Students Important Skills
Literacy in Other Disciplines
Brainstorm as many ways as you can identify that an expert in your field needs to be literate?
What are specific ways an expert in your field would:
Read a text (what types of texts? what types of vocabulary?)
Write a text (what types of writing?)
Specific skills (identifying author, identifying genre, problem solving, making inferences, following steps, etc.)
Listening/speaking skills for your area?
Break into small groups by content areas:
Math
English
History/Political Science
Spanish
Science
1. What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? Video and Reflective Writing
Objective: SWBAT- Understand and describe the need for literacy instruction across all content areas
2. Disciplinary Literacy vs. Content Area Literacy - defining each and discussion of how each applies to your content area
Objective: SWBAT- Define and describe/identify the differences between disciplinary literacy and content area literacy
3. In class activity- identification of literacy trends in each content area
Objective: SWBAT- identify literacy skills necessary for successful mastery of their own content area, as well as understand literacy skills used in other content areas
With your content area groups, identify the specific literacy skills/trends that an expert in your field needs to be successful.
Examining your list, which are specific strictly to your content? Which are general skills that all content areas use? Which are skills that only some (1 or 2) content areas use?
3......2......1
What does it mean to be literate in the 21st Century?
On your note card, write:
3 things you learned
2 things you want to understand better or are still confused/unsure about
1 question you had from the class or the readings