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Sample literacy tasks for mathematics students

Sample Literacy Tasks Required of Science Students:

Content Area Literacy

  • Understand processes
  • Grasp abstract concepts and translate them into symbols
  • Distinguish patterns
  • Decode words and numeric and nonnumeric symbols
  • Translate words into problems and problems into words
  • Use journals to write about and examine ideas and reflect on solutions
  • Write paragraphs to compare key concepts, such as a line and a plane

Disciplinary Literacy

  • Compare and contrast
  • Form hypotheses and draw conclusions
  • Understand the "bigger picture"
  • Determine the relative importance of information
  • Write about findings in learning logs or as part of a lab report

What is disciplinary literacy?

  • Basic literacy instructional tools that work across all content areas (summarizing, K-W-L charts, etc.)
  • Basic reading and writing skills and instruction

Disciplinary Literacy

Disciplinary Literacy: Teaching Students Important Skills

Sample literacy task required of social studies students:

Sample literacy tasks for English Language Arts Students

Literacy in Your Content Area

  • The unique tools and activities within the content
  • Specialized vocabulary
  • Analyzing complex text structures
  • Posing discipline specific questions
  • Writing using discipline specific approaches

Take 3 minutes to:

  • Sequence and make connections between historical evens
  • Understand text structures and features
  • Evaluate sources
  • Recognize issues and trends in context
  • Articulate thinking orally and in writing for various audiences
  • Understand mechanical standards and rhetorical techniques
  • Employ context clues
  • Recognize literacy devices
  • Understand how to read different literary genres
  • Develop fluency with the use of the writing process
  • Encourage the reading/writing connection to persuade, learn, inform, entertain, etc.

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?

Activity

Agenda and Objectives

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

Exit Ticket

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?

Literacy in the 21st Century

3......2......1

What does it mean to be literate in the 21st Century?

Think*Pair*Share

Watch this brief video and write down some thoughts on what your role as an educator in the 21st century will be in regards to literacy

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

Content vs. Disciplinary Literacy

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