Disciplinary literacy in action : how to create and sustain a school-wide culture of deep reading, writing, and thinking /

What happens when middle and high school teachers who know their content very well are told they should be teaching reading and writing too? Is there a bit of resistance? A decrease in self-efficacy? An overturning of curricula? In Disciplinary Literacy in Action, ReLeah Cossett Lent and Marsha McCr...

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Main Authors: Lent, ReLeah Cossett (Author), Voigt, Marsha (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, a SAGE Company, [2019]
Series:Corwin literacy
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Summary:What happens when middle and high school teachers who know their content very well are told they should be teaching reading and writing too? Is there a bit of resistance? A decrease in self-efficacy? An overturning of curricula? In Disciplinary Literacy in Action, ReLeah Cossett Lent and Marsha McCracken Voigt show us a better way. In this sequel to Lent's bestselling This Is Disciplinary Literacy, the authors provide educators with what they've wanted all along: a framework that keeps their subjects at the center and shows them how to pool strengths with colleagues in ongoing communities of professional learning(PL) around content specific theory--back cover.
Physical Description:xviii, 346 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.
ISBN:9781544317472
1544317476