Disciplinary Literacy

Until reading these articles, I did not know that content, content area and disciplinary literacy are all important aspects of lessons. Although they all have different meanings, each one all ties back into an important aspect of learning. With content, it is “what” you are learning and reading. For a particular author, they use their own words to express the content for the readers to better understand. But as for content area, this goes beyond the surface of the content itself. For content area reading, it takes the content and how it is implied to help the students “to better understand and remember whatever they read.” (Wosley and Lapp 2017) Disciplinary literacy is not only a way to know the content but how to use reading and writing to implement learning of the content. Metadiscursivity is knowing students engage in many discourses and their understanding of these discourses throughout their life. From personal experiences in high school, I learned different ways to learn that worked for me. Everyone does not learn the same, but the way one can comprehend information on their own makes the learning unique.

In a particular subject or area, Moje believes that knowledge is created differently for each are. For Moje, one of the focuses is to have students take new ways to implement the knowledge given to them into other subjects. Regardless if the language of a subject is different, such as science or math, disciplinary literacy helps develop the skills needed to learn the different “languages.” Although Gee agrees a lot with Moje, he believes that all content is specifically organized for that content such as the words that are used.