Post by janinesherman on Jan 26, 2016 14:43:24 GMT -5
So when I was reading the article by Shanahan on disciplinary literacy I could not exactly grasp the difference between content-area literacy and disciplinary literacy.
I found this article very helpful in explaining the point to non-experts... ssnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/file/view/10What+Is+Disciplinary+Literacy+and+Why+Does+it+Matter.pdf
"The difference is that content literacy emphasizes techniques that a novice might use to make sense of a disciplinary text (like how to study a history book for an exam), while disciplinary literacy emphasizes the unique tools that the experts in a discipline use to participate in the work of that discipline."
Content-area literacy assumes that the same reading skills and strategies can be used across the content areas, however this is not always true. The skills that you use to read a novel are entirely different than the skills needed to navigate a mathematical equation.
The example that made me have an a-ha moment about this new term "disciplinary literacy" was talking about how students in science classrooms often use mnemonic devices or memorization strategies to understand new science term. The disciplinary approach would be to take apart the word for its Latin or Greek roots to understand why the science term is named that way, this strategy can then by applied to other words.
This is an example I found. If i was learning terminology I would find this approach a lot more helpful than simply memorizing an exhaustive lists of terms.
peri + card + itis
(prefix) (root) (suffix)
around heart inflammation
I found this article very helpful in explaining the point to non-experts... ssnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/file/view/10What+Is+Disciplinary+Literacy+and+Why+Does+it+Matter.pdf
"The difference is that content literacy emphasizes techniques that a novice might use to make sense of a disciplinary text (like how to study a history book for an exam), while disciplinary literacy emphasizes the unique tools that the experts in a discipline use to participate in the work of that discipline."
Content-area literacy assumes that the same reading skills and strategies can be used across the content areas, however this is not always true. The skills that you use to read a novel are entirely different than the skills needed to navigate a mathematical equation.
The example that made me have an a-ha moment about this new term "disciplinary literacy" was talking about how students in science classrooms often use mnemonic devices or memorization strategies to understand new science term. The disciplinary approach would be to take apart the word for its Latin or Greek roots to understand why the science term is named that way, this strategy can then by applied to other words.
This is an example I found. If i was learning terminology I would find this approach a lot more helpful than simply memorizing an exhaustive lists of terms.
peri + card + itis
(prefix) (root) (suffix)
around heart inflammation
