1. Learning Module 15

2. • The Big Picture of Content Area Literacy
• Summing up Concepts Presented in the Class to Date
• One Question About Content Area Literacy
Reminder:
Rough Drafts of Final Synthesis Papers Posted to the
Writer’s Workshop Thread by Midnight on May 2nd.

4. Disciplinary
Literacies
Multiliteracies
Academic Literacy

5. • Academic Literacy—Consists of print-based literacy skills, specific
to academic contexts (e.g., summary, paraphrase, definition,
comparison). The goal is basic proficiency with reading and writing.
The pedagogical focus is on generalizable literacy strategies (e.g.,
KWL charts, questioning strategies, writing to learn).
• Multiliteracies—Includes an expansive notion of literacy (e.g., New
Literacies, multiple sign systems, multiple modalities, broadened
definition of text beyond print, adolescents’ out-of-school literacy
practices, popular media, critical literacy). The goal is recognizing the
diversity of meaning-making processes and social, cultural, and
intellectual equity. The pedagogical focus is on dexterity with
multiple forms of literacy and transmediation.
• Disciplinary Literacies—content-specific print and non-print
expectations and applications of literacy (e.g., marshaling evidence,
forming an argument, logic, sourcing, text structure). The goal is to
recognize and control conventions of disciplinary thought and
language. The pedagogical focus is on distinct literacy strategies
that are suitable for specific content areas.

6. Most states require teacher preparation programs to focus
on academic literacies. The field of literacy research,
however, views multiliteracies and disciplinary literacies as
important and more sophisticated levels of understanding
about content area literacy.
Please read the supplemental article “Policy, Pedagogy,
and Research: Three Issues Affecting Content Area
Literacy Courses for Secondary-Level Teacher Candidates”
to get a better understanding of these levels of content
area literacy instruction.

7. • T-Chart Activity:
• On a T-chart I want you to jot notes about everything you have
learned this semester about the following topics.

8. • Literacy Narrative
• Seven Defensible Strategies for Reading and Writing in
All Content Areas
• Transportable and Transparent Literacy Strategies
• Anticipatory Activities
• Read Alouds
• Graphic Organizers

9. • Vocabulary Instruction
• Writing to Learn
• Structured Note Taking
• Reciprocal Teaching
• Activating Prior Knowledge
• Six Types of Schema
• Gradual Release of Responsibility Model of Teaching

10. • Fake Reading
• Reading/Mind Journeys
• Teacher as Literacy Model
• Explicit Comprehension Instruction
• Universal Themes/Essential Questions
• Selecting Texts for Students
• Language Experience Approach
• Interactive Writing

11. • Power Writing
• Reading Apprenticeship Theory
• Metacognitive Strategies to Monitor Meaning
• Questioning Strategies (e.g., Beginning/Middle/End)
• Silent Sustained Reading
• Text Rendering
• Teaching Writing as a Process

12. • Inference
• Reasons for Persistent and Widespread Reading
Difficulties with Adolescents
• Gallagher’s Model for Teaching Challenging Text
• Pinnell & Fountas’ Three Block Model
• Teaching with Multiple Texts
• Socratic Circle/Dialogue

13. • Multigenre Writing
• Grammar A/Grammar B (Cognitive vs. Narrative
Thinking)
• Repetend
• Poem for Two Voices
• Narrative Summary vs. Dramatic Scene

14. • Write down one question you have about content area
literacy at this point in the semester and email it to me.