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Monte-Sano, Chauncey; De La Paz, Susan; Felton, Mark; Piantedosi, Kelly Worland; Yee, Laura S.; Carey, Roderick L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) emphasize disciplinary literacy by making literacy instruction every teacher's responsibility (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010). The CCSS require content area teachers to adapt curriculum and pedagogy to support disciplinary literacy…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, History Instruction, Best Practices, Common Core State Standards
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LaSalle, Dan – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2015
Struck by his students' often hostile and apathetic responses to assignments and instruction and hoping to contribute to the knowledge of motivation, Dan LaSalle began to take an inquiry stance on his own practice. He studied his practice on three fronts with the help of an off-site teacher research group: (1) how his inquiry question changes as a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Essays, Writing Instruction, Inquiry
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Daniels, Erika – Voices from the Middle, 2007
The "Literacy Cafe," a celebration of genre study and student writing, offers students (and visitors!) a positive environment in which to engage in reading and discussion of writing without self-consciousness or fear of criticism. It works because students learn to recognize writing as a learning tool and a relevant, authentic skill in the real…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Middle School Students, Literary Genres, Writing Instruction