Being able to prepare students for the skills and strategies needed to compete in the college and career arena today takes much more than simply being able to understand what they are reading.

1. Teacher Collaboration to
Encourage Disciplinary Literacy
• The new science and social studies standards
integrate rigorous expectations in regards to
disciplinary literacy . How can your ELA
teachers assist with this process? How does this
also impact their teaching of skills and strategies?
• How difficult is it to get collaboration between
departments to occur in your middle and high
schools? Is it an organic process, or is it
something that must be encouraged and taught?
• Do your teachers understand the difference
between content area literacy and disciplinary
literacy? Why is that important?

2. Teacher Collaboration to
Encourage Disciplinary Literacy
Do your teachers understand the difference
between content area literacy and disciplinary
literacy? Why is that important?

3. Content Area Literacy Disciplinary Literacy
study skills that can be used
to help students learn from
subject matter specific texts
emphasis on the knowledge
and abilities possessed by
those who create,
communicate, and use
knowledge within the
disciplines
emphasizes techniques that
a novice might use to make
sense of a disciplinary text
emphasizes the unique
tools that the experts in a
discipline use to engage in
the work of that discipline
prescribes study techniques
and reading approaches
that can help someone to
comprehend or to
remember text better (with
little regard to type of text)
emphasizes the description
of unique uses and
implications of literacy use
within the various
disciplines
“What is Disciplinary Literacy and Why Does It Matter?”
By Cynthia and Timothy Shanahan

4. Teacher Collaboration to
Encourage Disciplinary Literacy
How difficult is it to get collaboration between
departments to occur in your middle and high
schools? Is it an organic process, or is it something
that must be encouraged and taught?

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• Think/ Write like a Scientist
• Think/ Write like an Author
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7. Teacher Collaboration to
Encourage Disciplinary Literacy
The new science and social studies standards integrate rigorous
expectations in regards to disciplinary literacy . How can your
ELA teachers assist with this process? How does this also
impact their teaching of skills and strategies?

8. Connections offers the perfect
environment for teaching close
reading strategies and skills. Units
are designed around an essential
question that supports students in
making
• text-to-text,
• text-to-self, and
• text-to-world
connections as they practice the
skills and strategies needed to
navigate complex texts.
Students can then apply those strategies and skills to
other materials they are reading in the classroom as
well as texts they will read in preparation for college
and career.

9. Literature & Thought assists teachers in creating meaningful
discussions that draw from conversational language that
includes academic vocabulary. It is a tool for teachers to
teach students how to be critical thinkers through a unique
questioning strategy supporting close reading of complex
texts.
• informational text
• fiction text to support a
theme and/ or idea
• close reading strategies
• writing to sources
• critical thinking
• appropriate text complexity
• text dependent questions
and tasks

11. Name Website
Great Books Foundation www.greatbooks.org
Edutopia www.edutopia.org
Keys to Literacy Blog https://keystoliteracy.com
Infographics Archive www.infographicsarchive.com/
P21—Partnership for 21st
Century Learning
www.p21.org
FieldTripZoom www.fieldtripzoom.com
PLC Connections Teaching with Tech/ Integrated OERs
PLC Novel Studies www.perfectionlearning.com/customer/tea
cher-resource-library/
PLC Lit and Thought Interactive Whiteboard Lessons
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12. Literature & Thought and novel studies provide the texts needed for
students to apply the skills and strategies they are mastering.
Sports’ analogy ....Literature & Thought is PLAYING the game!
Connections is not about the content itself. It is about providing a
rich environment of complex texts for explicit, integrated close
reading instruction. Students can practice close reading skills and
strategies needed for evaluating and analyzing texts.
Sports’ analogy … Connections is the PRACTICE needed to win the
game!
Connections is the perfect solution for helping students become
experts at navigating complex texts, such as the ones found in
Literature & Thought and other sources!
These solutions are a winning combination
for collaboration between teachers,
departments, and students!
Learning for the Whole Student!