Disciplinary Literacy

"Disciplinary Literacy" recognizes that reading, writing, thinking, reasoning, and doing within each discipline is unique--and leads to the understanding that every field of study creates, communicates, and evaluates knowledge differently. As such, each content-area teacher is responsible for showing students how to use discipline-specific literacy skills as tools for accessing content, and, incorporating reading strategies only when they make sense within the context of the discipline."

"Literacy is embedded in all content areas. In fact, each of the subject areas provides opportunities for literacy development, often in unique and specialized ways. Embedding literacy instruction in all subjects allows adolescents to deepen their understanding of the knowledge and skills in content areas."

“Teachers must move from transmitting of information to showing students how to engage in the literacies that make up their discipline.”