Disciplinary Literacy in Action: How to Create and Sustain a School-Wide Culture of Deep Reading, Writing, and Thinking

by ReLeah Cossett Lent, Marsha McCracken Voigt

You wouldn’t tell a heart surgeon to also do pediatrics―so why would we tell content area educators they must "do" literacy? Math, history, English and science teachers are passionate about their specialties, and that’s why authors Releah Lent and Marsha Voight designed a framework that keeps teachers’ subjects at the center of daily classroom life while also helping them pool strengths with colleagues. Based on years of successful implementation, this powerful PL cycle "drops in" seamlessly to any school setting, so teachers schoolwide take on innovative practices of reading, writing, thinking, and doing within their areas of expertise.

Genres: Professional Development, Education, Nonfiction, School, Teaching

368 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2018

Reviews

[Valerie Biggam · Rating 3 out of 5]

📚The appendices are 5 stars. The listings of skills and approaches taken to literacy in different disciplines was eye opening.
📚The resources listed within each appendix were well chosen and gave me some new ideas.
📚The reciprocal teaching routine adapted for nonfiction and the see/think/wonder/connect organizer were helpful strategies that can be used tomorrow.

➖The bulk of many chapters seemed to be a retelling of various projects implemented in schools. Some of this helpful, but it felt repetitive after awhile. For example, instead of another anecdote about the same school’s PLC implementation, I would have liked concrete models of concept mapping in the different disciplines.

[Janet Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

ReLeah and Marsha offer fantastic ideas for teachers to incorporate literacy into each discipline. How a math teacher works with literacy and students is very different than how a science teacher or social studies teacher incorporates literacy. They have great examples and ideas for lessons.

[Lynette Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will be using this as a resource for a Grad class I teach in the summer.

[KP · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great ideas and practical tools to Kickstart incorporating diciplinary literacy in my school.

[Christy George · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every👏teacher👏is👏 a👏 Literacy👏 teacher 👏👏.

I'm just going to keep saying this to anyone who will listen.