Doing Disciplinary Literacy: Teaching Reading and Writing Across the Content Areas

by Rachael Gabriel

Learn how to design discipline-specific literacy instruction that increases academic engagement and supports college and career readiness. This practical resource offers contexts and strategies for addressing a fundamental question that teachers bring to their work with middle and high school How do I support literacy development alongside specific content goals? By exploring the histories and potentials of discipline-specific literacy instruction, this book provides a clear framework for engaging students as active participants in the authentic activities and processes of each content area. It goes beyond content-area reading strategies by situating literacy within the purposes, audiences, and formats of each area of study. Readers are invited to deepen their own disciplinary knowledge to ensure authenticity in their representations of literate practices, to involve students deeply in the work of their disciplinary communities, and to support students’ continued engagement beyond the classroom.

Book

Strategies to deepen teachers’ awareness of disciplinary text, practices, and habits of mind to inform the ways they model, teach, and invite literacy into their classrooms.Activities to support students in developing the meta-discursive awareness that allows them to navigate the texts of different disciplines.Guidance to intentionally and expertly develop multiple literacies that create equity, choice, and access for all learners.Exercises and examples appropriate for educators entering the field, as well as veterans who want to revitalize their instruction or prepare for new content, courses, or grade levels.

Genres: School

140 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 28, 2023

Reviews

[Zie Mueller · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book, which I read for an education class. The concept of applying interdisciplinary practices in the classroom was new to me this semester, and this book did a good job acting as an anchor to apply what I was learning in my classes into context of what I was seeing in real field sites. Before learning how to be a teacher, I already had these questions of how we increase reading and writing across the disciplines, and this book does a great job of laying it all out and weaving in real examples and research. I feel like I will always look for ways to incorporate these strategies in my own classroom now, and I appreciate Rachael Gabriel's own writing style, who helps you feel just how truly capable you are.

[Alexandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gabriel brilliantly provides readers with revolutionary insight into disciplinary literacy. Must read for all educators.

[Chris · Rating 1 out of 5]

Horrible book.
Constantly said how bad math is, and didn't care much to explain why it's bad.
Would not recommend.