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Task 1 Secondary Disciplinary Literacy – C728 A. Disciplinary literacy is a valuable tool in all subjects for educators and teachers alike. Disciplinary literacy refers to the application of literacy while engaging in many disciplines. While in elementary school, teachers of all grade levels and subjects put a heavy emphasis on language skills, such as reading, writing, and communicating because of the importance of disciplinary literacy. When entering middle grades, it is expected that students have a good understanding and have the strategies needed to comprehend text specific to the subject. Because literacy must be applied to virtually all disciplines, it is important that teachers in all subject areas, not just reading, work with students on these skills. For example, science teachers should provide students strategies for reading and understanding scientific data and texts. Another example would be a math teacher modeling for her students how to read and analyze a bar graph. Things like reading, writing, and communicating are the foundations for creating students who are critical thinkers, which is an integral skill for a student to have college and career readiness. B. Content area literacy is defined as the ability to use reading and writing to obtain new knowledge. Content area literacy, while similar to disciplinary literacy, has one distinct difference. When referring to disciplinary literacy, these particular skills are unique and specific to the discipline in question. When it comes to content area literacy, these skills can be applied to many different disciplines. Content area literacy skills are more of a basic set of strategies for reading and analyzing texts. An example of content area literacy in science

would be a general understanding of how to read a text about evolution. An example of disciplinary literacy in science would be an understanding on how to read a food web, which is a chart that displays different relationships of species within an ecosystem. C. The sample reading I have chosen to analyze is titled “Sample Science Text: Biography of an Atom”. C1. One disciplinary reading strategy needed to understand this passage would be learning vocabulary. There are many words in the text that would require a prior understanding to successfully understand the text, such as protons, nuclei, or electrons. These words can be broken down into simpler terms for students to better understand. There are also words used in the text that are used in everyday conversation as well, like fusion or charge, but these words hold different meanings in the context of the passage. Establishing these words and how they are defined in the realm of science would be beneficial for student’s understanding of the text. Another disciplinary reading strategy would be organizing ideas from multiple sources. Information when learning in the science discipline can be from a multitude of different sources or texts. When learning science, graphic organizers are a great way to gather many resources and compile them together. The final disciplinary literacy skill I have chosen would be representing different styles of data. To properly understand science, you must have the skills to present and read data, and this can come in a variety of ways. One of these could be a scatter plot, which is a graph used to present data trends. Learning how to read these will help students come to their own conclusions in the future as they analyze certain data.

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