Disciplinary Literacy / Disciplinary Teaching

Disciplinary Literacy/Teaching:  means that different disciplines have unique, specific ways of reading, writing, and thinking.  C:  Discipline Specific Habits of Mind from 5Ds.

• Disciplinary Reading AND CCSS expectations - validation of studio work!!
• PowerPoint with some interesting slides.
• Why reading in the content areas?  Edutopia tried to explain....

History:

• Textual detectives, go to the archives and piece together messiness of the past.
• Source all reading - all reading is actually a human being to engage with...  What is this document about?  What do we know about this person/position?  
• What content knowledge do I need to interpret this document?  (Textbook, internet to better understand this person/position.)
• Contextualize - what else was going on during this time period?  How does this impact what is being written in this piece of writing?  Documents don't just appear.  Why did it appear?
• What content knowledge do I need to interpret this document?  (Textbook, internet to explore this place or time period.)
• Corroboration of all sources - cross checking, How can both be true?  What about the conflict creates more truth?
• Reading like Historians - Stanford History Education (shed.standford.ed)
• question PK - lower prior knowledge or content knowledge means less ability to engage in the exercise, thinking.
• build PK through textbooks, internet, video clips (PBS, Discovery, BrainPop!)
• Carefully select documents - reading level, text demand (are their adaptations to be made?)
• Room for Debate from the NY Times

for more about Dr Wineberg and Stanford History Project, go to www.CenterForLearning.org