Investigating Disciplinary Literacy: A Framework for Collaborative Professional Learning

by Christina L. Dobbs, Jacy Ippolito, and Megin Charner-Laird

Elizabeth A. City (Foreword)

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Investigating Disciplinary Literacy provides practical, research-based guidance for teachers seeking to strengthen students' reading, writing, and communication skills in subjects from the humanities to the sciences. The authors present a framework for conducting professional development cycles based on disciplinary literacy-related learning and district-based research projects they have conducted over the past five years.

The book outlines the steps in the cycle and identifies four "working habits" essential to initiating and sustaining disciplinary literacy projects: balancing content with process; creating a culture of adaptation and invention; attending equally to intermediate and subject-specific literacy skills; and positioning teachers and leaders as learners within projects. The book, written in a reader-friendly voice, shows how educators can collaboratively explore and implement disciplinary literacy-related practices in context-specific, meaningful ways.
  • ISBN13 9781682530689
  • Publish Date 15 August 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard Educational Publishing Group
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 216
  • Language English