Blog Post #1
What does disciplinary literacy look like in your content area? List at least 3 skills your students need to learn in order to think/read/write/act like a member of your disciplinary community. Explain why these skills are important to success in your discipline. In addition, include a few pictures of different “texts” you teach/will be teaching. In my discipline, disciplinary literacy is the ability to digest complex scientific readings, articles, and content. These examples most of the time are paired with visual support such as graphs, charts, data, etc. Students need the following skills in order to think/read/write/act like a member of my disciplinary community: data analysis, making claims and support them with evidence, and making connections between different big ideas/units . The ability to analyze data is an essential skill needed to act as a scientist. A student must be able to analyze and interpret data. They need to understand what the data is representing and wh...