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Disciplinary Literacy in Action

How to Create and Sustain a School-Wide Culture of Deep Reading, Writing, and Thinking
How do you get content area teachers on the same page about literacy? By trusting that discipline-specific literacy skills will naturally arise—or will they? With this book, you get a professional learning plan to assure they do. Field-tested for more than a decade, this is ready made PL at its best, sure to instill innovative reading and writing schoolwide.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781544317472
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Literacy
  • Year: 2018
  • Page Count: 368
  • Publication date: September 17, 2018
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“Much of the professional literature has focused on what disciplinary literacy entails; this valuable contribution explores how it can be implemented in complex school settings.”

—Doug Buehl, Author of Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines


What happens when middle and high school teachers who know their content very well are told they should be teaching reading and writing too? Is there a bit of resistance? A decrease in self-efficacy? An overturning of curricula? In Disciplinary Literacy in Action, ReLeah Cossett Lent and Marsha Voigt show us a better way.

In this sequel to ReLeah’s bestselling This Is Disciplinary Literacy, the authors provide educators with what they’ve wanted all along: a framework that keeps their subjects at the center and shows them how to pool strengths with colleagues in ongoing communities of professional learning (PL) around content-specific literacy.

In each chapter, and with a blend of lively disciplinary literacy teaching ideas and razor-sharp insights on developing teacher efficacy and leadership, ReLeah and Marsha take educators through a powerful PL cycle they can replicate in their school. The authors know it works not just because the research says so, but also because they have spent years refining the model in schools, districts, and regions. With this book, you will be ready for

  • Collaborative learning that preserves discipline-specific content yet keeps innovative daily practices of reading, writing, thinking, and doing at the forefront
  • Planning by autonomous literacy leadership teams with administrative support
  • Implementation augmented by peer and disciplinary literacy coaching
  • Reflection that leads to ongoing collective problem solving

In the end, it all comes back to how content teachers can best help students use literacy in all its forms to learn more deeply. With Disciplinary Literacy in Action, you have a proven framework for doing just that. This is the resource to lean on as you work to ensure all students use literacy as a tool to think, create, and communicate in any endeavor.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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ReLeah Cossett Lent

ReLeah Cossett Lent is an international consultant known for speaking, writing, and providing workshops on various topics ranging from literacy to leadership teams. She was previously a middle and high school English, Social Studies, and Journalism teacher before becoming a founding member of a state-wide literacy project at the University of Central Florida. There, she contributed to developing Florida's Reading Endorsement courses and coordinated literacy leadership teams statewide. Her most impactful work stems from multi-day residencies in schools, districts, and consortiums, where she has created numerous professional learning initiatives with positive results in student achievement and teacher leadership. An advocate for student ownership and active learning, ReLeah emphasizes powerful collective efficacy as teacher teams engage in problem solving. She has been recognized with several awards, including intellectual freedom awards from the National Council of Teachers of English and The American Library Association, the PEN First Amendment Award, and the Florida Council of Teachers of English (FCTE) President's Award for her "significant contributions to the teachings of English in State of Florida."

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Marsha McCracken Voigt

Marsha Voigt has 30 years of experience as a diagnostician and teacher, working with kindergarten through college-age students who struggled with literacy. She now focuses on professional development and serves as a consultant and literacy coach. In their article, “Growing Leaders from Within,” she and ReLeah describe their first year of working together to facilitate a truly collaborative literacy learning community.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


INTRODUCTION


What to Expect From This Book

CHAPTER 1: DISCIPLINARY LITERACY AND COLLABORATIVE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING: A PARTNERSHIP THAT WORKS

Literacy Initiatives and PLCs: What Went Wrong?

Collaborative Disciplinary Literacy Learning: A Story of Success

Meet Our Disciplinary Literacy Learning Community

Benefits of Collaborative Disciplinary Literacy Professional Learning

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy Dialogue

Resources for Continued Learning

CHAPTER 2: UNLOCKING DISCIPLINARY LITERACY

What Is Literacy in the 21st Century?

Content Area Literacy Versus Disciplinary Literacy

Disciplinary Literacy Instruction in Action

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy Dialogue

Resources for Continued Learning

HOW TO CREATE A SCHOOL-WIDE CULTURE OF DISCIPLINARY LITERACY


CHAPTER 3: CREATING A SCHOOL-WIDE CULTURE OF DISCIPLINARY READING

Why Read in Every Discipline?

Wide Reading in All Disciplines: There’s No Downside

Reading Strategies: When and How

Vocabulary: The Key to All Content Reading

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy Dialogue

Resources for Continued Learning

CHAPTER 4: CREATING A SCHOOLWIDE CULTURE OF DISCIPLINARY WRITING

Exploring Disciplinary Writing

Writing to Learn in the Discipline Areas

Following the Pros: Disciplinary Mentor Texts

Feedback: From Master to Apprentice

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy Dialogue

Resources for Continued Learning

CHAPTER 5: CREATING A SCHOOL-WIDE CULTURE OF DISCIPLINARY THINKING

Learning to Think in Disciplinary Ways

Curiosity Drives Disciplinary Thinking

Students and Teachers: Thinking Like Insiders Together

Making Disciplinary Thinking Visible

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy Dialogue

Resources for Continued Learning

HOW TO SUSTAIN A SCHOOL-WIDE CULTURE OF DISCIPLINARY LITERACY


CHAPTER 6: BUILDING DISCIPLINARY LITERACY (DL) LEARNING COMMUNITIES

The Problem With PLCs

Fixing the Problem Through DL Learning Communities

Tips for Creating Interdisciplinary

Common Subject Literacy Learning Communities

The All-Important First Meeting

Supporting DL Learning Communities

Moving Toward Collective Efficacy

Sustaining DL Learning Communities

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy Dialogue

Resources for Continued Learning

CHAPTER 7: WHAT MATTERS MOST IN A DISCIPLINARY LITERACY (DL) LEARNING COMMUNITY

Collective Inquiry

Autonomy and Authority

Meaningful Collaboration

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy Dialogue

Resources for Continued Learning

CHAPTER 8: FROM TEACHER LEARNER TO TEACHER LEADER

Disciplinary Literacy Develops Deep Leadership

Disciplinary Literacy Leadership Roles

The Power of Disciplinary Literacy Leadership

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy Dialogue

Resources for Continued Learning

CHAPTER 9: LEADING THE DISCIPLINARY LITERACY CHARGE

Administrative Leaders as Learners

Disciplinary Literacy Coaching: The Glue That Holds It All Together

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy Dialogue

Resources for Continued Learning

Coda


Appendix A: Disciplinary Literacy in English Language Arts


Appendix B: Disciplinary Literacy in Math


Appendix C: Disciplinary Literacy in Science


Appendix D: Disciplinary Literacy in Social Studies


Appendix E: Disciplinary Literacy in Art


Appendix F: Disciplinary Literacy in a World Language


Appendix G: Disciplinary Literacy in Health


Appendix H: Disciplinary Literacy in Music


Appendix I: Technology or Digital Literacy


Appendix J: Disciplinary Literacy in Physical Education


References


Index


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