Types of questions: Research Based, Current/Relevant, Observable/Measurable, Logical Research Based – an initial question that set the tone for the lesson but does not give all of the information to the students Current/Relevant – questions that appropriate because they are closely connected to the lesson and impact today’s society Observable/Measurable – the solution can be …
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Disciplinary Literacy
As a middle level educator, the focal point for our 7th and 8th grade classes is English. At the beginning of the class, I had no idea what disciplinary literacy was. Getting more in depth with it, I realized how disciplinary literacy can be helpful in these English classes. In order to be able to …
We Real Cool
For this week, the article I chose to read was “We Real Cool.” Within the article, there is mention of how literacy is partially determined by culture described as “coolness.” It is not unknown that white culture differs from black culture. Throughout history, African Americans have been close with one another due to the segregation …
What’s App?
When looking through the list of articles, the one that stuck out to me the most was “Using apps to support disciplinary literacy and science learning” by Beach and Castek. Within the use of the apps, looking past the technological features, the article puts emphasis on affordances of using the apps. Affordances is defined as …
Approaches of Disciplinary Literacy
As the reading rocket’s video started, the very first thing that stood out was the depiction of words related from a story. After reading a story about gardening, the students were asked to give some words that was related to gardening. Some of the words used like “soil, water and sunshine” were apart of the …
Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary School
Back in elementary school, there would be little ways as to how my teachers would teach us disciplinary literacy skills. Although they may not be as enforced in the younger grades than in secondary, the gentle approach will stick in the long run. For example, in science, having the students collecting data is a way …
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Examples of Disciplinary Literacy
Knowing that there are different styles of disciplinary literacy for different subjects, reading about Mr. Franchi’s history class was interesting. For his classroom, he incorporated the 4-Es, engaging, eliciting and engineering, examining words and language, and evaluating ways with words, into his lessons. By engaging his students into the reading and text, the students had …
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 …
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