Week Two of ERD619

My studies this week exposed me to content-specific literacy. I used to be somewhat straight-forward in the writing styles I approached when putting ideas to paper. I would place format over subject and did not realize I was doing it until our studies this week.

            This week’s teachings enlightened me to consider specific subject area when preparing lesson content. For example, this week’s reading, Fisher and Frey (2020, pp. 6 – 7) proposed discipline-specific elements in text such as history being journalistic, science organized into introductory paragraphs, and English being narratives. Additionally, this week’s reading also taught in Dyches, Boyd, Baker, and Kaulfuss (2024, pg. 189) the Human Continuum comprises Critical Literacy and Disciplinary Literacy. This is the idea that students mature in their development of literacy skills.

            To conclude, this week’s lessons opened my eyes to subject-specific presentation in my writing preparations.

references

Dyches, J., Boyd, A.S., Baker, K., and Kaulfuss, A. (2024) POWER TOOLS 30 Critical Disciplinary Literacy Strategies for 6 – 12 Classroom, Myers Education Press, Gorham, Maine.

Fisher, D. and Frey, N. (2020) Improving ADOLESCENT LITERACY Content Area Strategies at Work, Pearson, Fifth Edition, Hoboken, New Jersey.