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Disciplinary Literacy at BBMS!

Disciplinary Literacy at BBMS!. What are characteristics of the HCPSS Literacy Team?.

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Disciplinary Literacy at BBMS!

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  1. Disciplinary Literacy at BBMS!

  2. What are characteristicsof the HCPSS Literacy Team? • Participants take their understanding of standards and curricular expectations back to their schools where teachers there too are building an understanding of Common Core Standards and Howard County instructional expectations. The Literacy Team is a community of learners who spend time together on a regular basis building an understanding of Common Core Standards and Howard County instructional expectations. • Central Office curricular leaders provide guidance and insight regarding how the standards apply to their specific content areas.

  3. What is disciplinary literacy? Point #1: You are NOT going to be teaching reading in your classroom! Point #2: Disciplinary Literacy is not just using “generic reading and writing strategies to learn about science, math, history and literature.” McConachie and Petrosky, Content Matters, 2010 Point #3: Disciplinary Literacy is the use of discipline-specific practices to access, apply, and communicate content knowledge. 

  4. Disciplinary Literacy Read, Write, Listen, Speak, and Think Content Knowledge, Experience, and Skills

  5. Howard County’s Vision: Disciplinary literacy identifies reading behaviors which engage students in INDEPENDENTLY comprehending, as well as critiquing, increasing levels of complex text with DEEP understanding using SPECIFIC demands in each discipline.

  6. SO…our job is two-fold • We must get our students ready for the new curricular demands that call for increased reading with higher text complexity! • We must reach the students who come to us with various levels of proficiency in reading!

  7. Why disciplinary literacy? • Each discipline has specialized: • Ways of thinking • Language and vocabulary • Types of text to comprehend • Ways of communicating in writing

  8. Why disciplinary literacy? We now need to provide students with opportunities to grapple with complex text and sources independently.

  9. What does teaching a lesson that incorporates disciplinary literacy look like? Close Reading of Complex Text We are not throwing out everything we have always done…we are restructuring and fine-tuning. We are veering off the path most traveled.

  10. Similar situations in all classes • Student centered with discovery models • Close readings of complex text • Collaborative environment • Unique strategies applied based on type of reading based on content • Readings from varied sources • Modeling by teacher of what it means to read like a … • Discussions of thinking process

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