In my blog post, I focused on the article, Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary School: How a Struggling Student Positions Herself as a Writerby Anne Haland. This article focuses on disciplinary literacy and how a student that is a struggling writer positions herself to be a disciplinary writer when given a model to use. Throughout this article, …
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Blog Post #6: “Cool Talk”
In this blog post, I focused on the article by David E. Kirkland and Austin Jackson, “We Real Cool”: Toward a Theory of Black Masculine Literacies. the article is focused around an empirical ethnographic research study. The argument in their study was that the cool kids enacted blackness and masculinity through coolness. The study was on …
Blog Post #5: There are complexities on reading comprehension when there is an explicit focus on reading in the disciplines
In this blog post, I focus on a cross-disciplinary reading by Carol D. Lee, The Multi-Dimensional Demands of Reading in the Disciplines. I found this article to be interesting because it argues that there are a number of complexities for teachers and students when reading through the various disciplines. She puts the emphasis of difficulty more …
Blog Post #4:Writing and Reading are not the same in every subject area, they both require differentiated knowledge in various subjects
In this blog post, I will be discussing what I noticed about the video from Reading Rockets, List-Group-Label, and the video from TEDD, True/False Equation, and how they relate to disciplinary literacy/content area reading. I will also be discussing my argument, that writing and reading require differentiated knowledge in various subjects towards the article by Peter Smagorinsky, Disciplinary Literacy …
Blog Post #3: Why Disciplinary Literacy Should Have a Place in Elementary School
In my blog post, I focus on the first article, Does Disciplinary Literacy Have a Place in Elementary School? by Shanahan and Shanahan. I argue that Disciplinary Literacy has a place in Elementary School. The Common Core Standards have only established disciplinary reading goals in grades 6-12, but what about Elementary School? Why are they being left …
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Blog Post #2: Disciplinary Literacy through two different lenses
In this blog post, I will be discussing what disciplinary literacy looks like in a history and physics lesson in two different classrooms, taught by two different teachers. I will be looking at how these two teachers use Moje’s 4-Es from his heuristic model for disciplinary literacy teaching and how it serves to be a …
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Blog Post #1: Disciplinary Literacy throughWolsey & Lapp and Moje
For this blog post, I will be discussing the many ideas I had encountered in the two readings for this week. The two readings focus primarily on a specific term, disciplinary literacy. The first reading was on the first chapter of Wolsey and Lapp, What is Disciplinary Literacy?.This reading discusses the differences between disciplinary literacy and …
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My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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