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Alexa E. Freitas; Riki Fujioka; Haley M. Zmijewski; Tutita M. Casa – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
Although kindergarteners often are excited to share their mathematical ideas, they may not be sure how to explain the underlying reasoning that brought them to their answers. Teachers seeking to use literacy skills in mathematics to support kindergarteners' reasoning can use writing to provide each student an avenue to communicate their individual…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Literacy, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction
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Beck, Sarah W.; del Calvo, Andrew O. – Literacy, 2023
Though discipline-specific approaches to literacy instruction can support adolescents' academic literacy and identity development, scant attention has been paid to ways of targeting such instruction to address individual student needs. Dialogic writing assessment is an approach to conducting writing conferences that foregrounds students' composing…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Dialogs (Language), Social Studies, History Instruction
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George C. Bunch – Intercultural Education, 2025
Access to core subject-area curriculum for students from immigrant backgrounds who are learning the dominant language of instruction has long been a barrier to equitable education around the world, especially in secondary schools. This article explores the promise of Complex Instruction (CI) to address barriers to access for such multilingual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Difficulty Level, Multilingualism, Core Curriculum
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Ariely, Moriah; Livnat, Zohar; Yarden, Anat – Science & Education, 2019
Learning the unique linguistic forms and structures that construct and communicate scientific principles, knowledge, and beliefs is important for developing students' disciplinary literacy. The use of scientific language is apparent in the texts that scientists produce to communicate their findings to other scientists--the research articles. Texts…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Literacy, Language Usage, High School Students
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Lemley, Stephanie M.; Hart, Steven M.; King, James R. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2019
We examined how infusing an inquiry-based Disciplinary Literacy Project (DLP) into a graduate literacy education class influenced elementary teachers' knowledge about disciplinary literacies and how this knowledge influenced their instructional practices. Through the DLP, teachers in this study developed an awareness of the nuances of the literate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Literacy, Graduate Study, Knowledge Level
Lyon, Edward G.; Mackura, Kelly M. – Teachers College Press, 2023
This practical resource takes educators through a planning process--from selecting standards to designing learning activities--that weaves together language, literacy, and science in ways that are responsive to emergent bilinguals. Drawing on extensive and current research, the authors show how secondary educators can use students' own language…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Bilingualism, Secondary School Teachers, Second Language Learning
Hicks, Troy; Hyler, Jeremy; Pangle, Wiline – Eye on Education, 2020
Discover how to effectively incorporate literacy instruction into your middle or high school science classroom with this practical book. You'll find creative, inquiry-based tools to show you what it means to teach science with and through writing, and strategies to help your students become young scientists who can use reading and writing to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Literacy, Content Area Writing
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Parenti, Melissa A. – Reading Teacher, 2018
Becoming more disciplined about teaching disciplinary literacy in our classrooms can be a challenge. Encouraging student production of the academic language and the demands and styles of thinking associated with each discipline requires an additional push that was often overlooked in content area instruction of the past. As this new journey in…
Descriptors: Literacy, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Content Area Reading
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Brozo, William G.; Crain, Sarah – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2018
Mathematics teachers often resist generic literacy strategies because they do not seem relevant to math learning. Discipline-specific literacy practices that emerge directly from the math content and processes under study are more likely to be embraced by math teachers. Furthermore, national and state-level mathematics standards as well as Common…
Descriptors: Literacy, Content Area Writing, Mathematics Instruction, Writing Strategies
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Bingham, Teri; Rodriguez, Regina Chanel – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2019
Transitioning from teaching whole number operations to teaching fraction operations can prove difficult, even for the seasoned mathematics teacher. However, with effective literacy practices, teachers can seamlessly shift their students to learning the rules for fractions. The implications can be a mastery of mathematical language used to describe…
Descriptors: Fractions, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Jorge Solís; Kristen Lindahl; Bedrettin Yazan – TESOL Journal, 2024
This article shares findings from the implementation of an ongoing National Professional Development (NPD) project that advances second language literacy and biliteracy in secondary content areas. The project is part of a research-practice partnership between a large public university and two school districts in south Texas that engages in-service…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mongillo, Maria Boeke – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Disciplinary literacy focuses on the specific ways a content area thinks, uses language, and shares information. While much of the literature on disciplinary literacy suggests it is an advanced language strategy to be taught to secondary students, early childhood classrooms may be the ideal environment in which to introduce this type of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Content Area Writing, Content Area Reading, Mathematics Instruction
Lorinda Brusie – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study examined the preparedness of middle school teachers to teach literacy strategies to middle school students. The study also examined the significance between teacher licensure pathways and their self-efficacy level as it relates to using literacy strategies in content areas. This was a mixed methods study using quantitative data…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Self Efficacy, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Hartman, Pamela; Renguette, Corinne; Seig, Mary Theresa – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2018
We designed a professional development (PD) teacher-mentor program that used problem-based learning (PBL) to accomplish two goals. First, teachers explored how PBL could be used effectively in their classrooms to change the way they think about teaching to include literacy development in content areas. Second, PBL was the basis for PD training to…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Problem Based Learning, Literacy, Mentors
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Rainey, Emily C. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2017
Despite many calls for K-12 disciplinary literacy instruction--instruction that teaches students the specialized ways of reading, writing, and reasoning of the academic disciplines--there are questions about what disciplinary literacy instruction means for the prominent school domain of English language arts. This article investigates the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Logical Thinking, Literacy
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