Full Description
In this practical guide, literacy experts show teachers how to use project-based inquiry to build students' discipline-specific skills and knowledge in grades 6-12. The authors present a five-phase framework that incorporates their professional development experience working with over 3,000 teachers. By making the intuitive practices of the disciplines explicit within an inquiry process, students have opportunities to construct new knowledge by employing practices used by literary critics, scientists, historians, and mathematicians. Read, Write, Inquire responds to the current focus on disciplinary literacy across multiple sets of standards, offering a clear blueprint to help teachers meet these standards while also providing students with deep learning across the curriculum.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Disciplinary Literacy and Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) 1
How Our Model Is Different from Other Methods 2
Benefits for Teachers and Students 3
Chapter Summaries 3
Design Features 5
1. Disciplinary Literacy and Inquiry for Deeper Learning 7
What Is Disciplinary Literacy? 7
What Is the Difference Between Disciplinary Literacy and Content Literacy? 11
Apprenticeship in Disciplinary Literacy 13
How Can Disciplinary Literacy Be Used with Inquiry-Based Learning? 18
Summary 21
Now It's Your Turn! 21
2. Relating Disciplinary Literacy to Inquiry Through the Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Model 22
The PBI Model 22
Summary 37
Now It's Your Turn! 38
3. Gathering and Analyzing Sources: Getting Close to Close Reading 39
Gather and Analyze Online Sources 39
What Is Close Reading? 41
Close Reading in the Disciplines 42
Close Reading in the Classroom 48
Strategies for Close Reading 49
Summary 53
Now It's Your Turn! 54
4. Creatively Synthesizing Information: Building Digital and Global Literacies 55
Creatively Synthesizing Information 56
Digital Literacies and Learning 57
PBI Global and Educational Cosmopolitanism 62
Summary 71
Now It's Your Turn! 71
5. Critical Evaluation as Summative and Formative Assessment 72
Summative Assessment 73
Formative Assessment 76
Differentiation 79
Summary 84
Now It's Your Turn 84
6. Share, Publish, and Act: Students and Teachers Stepping into Leadership 86
Students Share, Publish, and Act as Part of Their PBI Process 86
Teacher Leaders as Change Agents 87
Summary 95
Now It's Your Turn! 96Appendix A: PBI Disciplinary Literacy Lesson for ELA 98
Appendix B: PBI Disciplinary Literacy Lesson for Science 110
Appendix C: PBI Disciplinary Literacy Lesson for History 119
Appendix D: PBI Disciplinary Literacy Lesson for Mathematics 126
Appendix E: PBI Disciplinary Literacy Lesson Template 135
References 141
Index 149
About the Authors 158
