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How can I  (1) engage newcomers in my discipline in cycles of inquiry?  (2) Engineer and scaffold their success?  (3) Examine their words and ways with words?  (4) Evaluate their claims and ways with words?  Math. Most students are not eager to go to math class and I am aware of this as a futureContinue reading “Blog post 7”

Inquiry is an act of asking for information. Kid watching is an informal, systematic observation and recording of student behavior. Responsive teaching is the process of stepping in and out of a learning activity to support the student’s individual needs and growing independence. These words all relate to each other in the sense that teacherContinue reading “Blog Post 6”

A claim from “Language in academic subject areas and classroom instruction: what is academic language and how can we teach it?” is that academic language is a set of linguistic registers that construe multiple and complex meanings at all levels and in all subjects of schooling. The challenges of academic registers extend far beyond learningContinue reading “Blog Post 5”

What do you notice about either video? How do they each relate to the concepts of disciplinary literacy and/or content area reading? What are the affordances and limitations of each approach?  List-Group-Label relates to the concept of disciplinary literacy. By using this vocabulary skill students brainstorm a list of related works, then group the wordsContinue reading “Blog Post 4”

What are the strongest arguments for and against taking a disciplinary approach to teaching reading at the elementary levels? Disciplinary literacy refers to the idea that we should teach the specialized ways of reading, understanding, and thinking used in each academic discipline, such as science, history, or literature. Each field has its own ways ofContinue reading “Blog Post 3”

Rod Franchi teaches high school history in the Novi Community School District in Michigan and David Coupland teaches physics in Ann Arbor Public Schools in Michigan. Both teachers work as attending teachers in partnership with instructors in our university-based teacher education program call Clinical Rounds. Clinical Rounds prepares undergraduates to teach in secondary classrooms withContinue reading “Blog Post 2”

What is the difference between Content, Content area and Disciplinary Literacy?  Although content, content area and disciplinary literacy seam to all be synonymous, there are differences between them. Teachers of content have been told they are all teachers of reading, meanwhile the focus of content teachers is on instructing within their discipline. Students need toContinue reading “Blog Post 1”

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