Instruction
https://www.sedl.org/insights/3-1/teaching_content_area_literacy_and_disciplinary_literacy.pdf
For the most part, we’ve been discussing the application of reading strategies across our contents in an effort to increase our students’ literacy skills. However, not only do we need to consider the importance of utilizing reading strategies to increase our student’s understanding, we must also recognize that different contents – especially at the secondary level – must also consider specific sets of reading skills. The skill involved in teaching students to not only read within the content, but to read using skills specific to the content is known as disciplinary literacy and is becoming a more and more important skill for educators to develop. Disciplinary literacy activities may move beyond summarizing and questioning to emphasizing reading and writing practices specific to subjects – encouraging students to read like historians, mathematicians, or scientist (Chauvin and Theodore, 201