READING STRATEGIES
Discussion Response
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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, 2015; Shanahan, 2012).
Based on what you’ve seen and read, what are the values to educators of not only teaching students content-area reading skills, but specific disciplinary literacy skills as well? What specific considerations should teachers make when planning instruction to find ways to incorporate disciplinary specific reading opportunities? Provide an example of a way that you could incorporate disciplinary specific reading opportunities into your classroom.
Chauvin, R. and Theodore, K. (2015). Teaching content-area literacy and disciplinary literacy. SEDL Insights, 3(1), 1-10.
Shanahan, T. (2012). Disciplinary literacy is NOT the new name for content area reading. [Blog post: Shanahan on Literacy]. Retrieved from http://www.shanahanonliteracy.
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There are essential values that come in when an educator understands that teaching students content area is not enough. And teaching specific disciplinary skills come with a great advantage. It is wholesome when an educator decides to teach both. Some of the values instilled in learners can take charge of their learning. It happens when a learner is taking disciplinary skills and applies them to different subjects. Another advantage, according to Chauvin and Kathleen, 2015, is that the learners…
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