Disciplinary Literacy

Disciplinary Literacy

Disciplinary Literacy

Timothy Shanahan

Disciplinary Literacy is a completely different concept It is not about bringing ELA standards, methods, or approaches to the subject area classroom Each discipline has its own ways of using text to create, disseminate, and evaluate knowledge, and it is this that the new standards are asking us to teach Goal is to apprentice students into the disciplines What is different across the disciplines?

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One of the world’s premier literacy educators.

He studies reading and writing across all ages and abilities. Feel free to contact him.