The On-Your-Feet Guide to Disciplinary Literacy in Math, Science, and Social Studies
- The On-Your-Feet Guide to Disciplinary Literacy in Science
- Resources from Disciplinary Literacy in Action and This is Disciplinary Literacy
- Videos
- Janet: A teacher librarian shares ideas about building background knowledge for complex science topics through picture books.
- Caroline: A science teacher discusses how she engages students in scientific phenomena by incorporating current and updated articles and data.
- Cory: A science teacher shares how inquiry and evidence support scientific writing in biology.
- The On-Your-Feet Guide to Disciplinary Literacy in Math
- Resources from Disciplinary Literacy in Action
- Videos
- The On-Your-Feet Guide to Disciplinary Literacy in Social Studies
- Resources from Disciplinary Literacy in Action and This is Disciplinary Literacy
- How to use writing as a tool for learning (Disciplinary Literacy in Action, p. 105)
- How to interpret visual texts (This is Disciplinary Literacy, p. 43)
- How to engage in reciprocal teaching activity (Disciplinary Literacy in Action, p. 79-80)
- How to understand shifts in teaching social studies, specifically from helping students “know” information to deep understandings (Appendix E of the C3 Framework)
- Videos
- Janet: A teacher librarian describes how short novels can be used as a scaffold for social studies topics.
- Kathleen: A social studies teacher discusses how she uses literacy to spark some amazing student action projects.
- Rebecca and Sam: Two economics and world history teachers share how they used writing to build the skills needed for debate and deeper thinking.
- Resources from Disciplinary Literacy in Action and This is Disciplinary Literacy
Pub date:
May 2019