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Disciplinary literacy and complex texts
The activities in this collection focus on disciplinary literacy across ELA, history, and science. Participants will deepen their understanding on disciplinary literacy and scaffolds for students to access complex texts through close reading and collaborative annotation.
In this series of activities, participants will:
- develop strategies for teaching students how to read like a literary critic, historian, or scientist
- deepen understanding of what close reading is
- learn how to engage students in close reading and collaborative annotation and scaffolds to support diverse learners
- plan next steps around the new learnings from activities above
Included Resources
This presentation (including facilitation notes) can be used to lead participants through activities focused on the following question: What does it mean to read like a literary critic, historian, or scientist?
After this presentation and activities, participants will be able to:
- Understand what it means to read like a literary critic, historian, or scientist
- Deepen their understanding of close reading
- Engage in strategies that support close reading and collaborative annotation
- Provide scaffolds for students to access complex text
This graphic organizer can be used by participants to capture their thoughts in activity 1 (ELA).
This graphic organizer can be used by participants in activity 1 (ELA) to connect the reading skills of a literary critic to the Common Core Learning Standards in ELA/Literacy.
This graphic organizer can be used by participants to capture their thoughts in activity 1 (Science).
This graphic organizer can be used by participants in activity 1 (Science) to connect the reading skills of a scientist to the Common Core Learning Standards in ELA/Literacy.
This graphic organizer can be used by participants to capture their thoughts in activity 1 (History/Social Studies).
This graphic organizer can be used by participants in activity 1 (Social studies/history) to connect the reading skills of a an historian to the Common Core Learning Standards in Literacy.
This graphic organizer can be used by participants when debriefing the collaborative annotation activity.
This graphic organizer can be used by participants during the Force Field Analysis activity.
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