Full Description
Disciplinary Literacy: The Other Disciplines is intended as both a textbook and a handbook. It will give content area literacy teachers/professors a much needed textbook to fully address all of their candidates' needs, not just the needs of traditional content. The majority of states (47) require all preservice teaching candidates to successfully complete a content area reading/literacy course; making the course as relevant as possible to all teacher candidates is essential.
Disciplinary Literacy: The Other Disciplines will also serve as a handbook filled with practical strategies, suggestions, handouts, and examples for the content literacy teachers/professors to easily incorporate into their courses. Preservice teaching candidates will also be able to use this text as a resource. Also, they will be able to employ many of the practical strategies, etc. in their own classrooms.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Literacy
Content Area Literacy vs. Disciplinary Literacy
References
Chapter Two: Learning Content Vocabulary
Vocabulary Instruction
Explicit Vocabulary Strategies
Comprehension
References
Chapter Three: The Necessity of Writing
Introduction
Why Write?
Barriers to Writing
General Writing Examples
References
Chapter Four: Listening and Speaking
The Four Stages of Learning to Listen
The Benefits of Listening to Understand
Learning from Listening
Academic Listening
Speaking
References
Appendix
Vocabulary
Writing and Organization
Listening and Organizing Information
Speaking and Organization
Speaking and Grouping
Reference
