Disciplinary Literacy

Disciplinary Literacy will focus on specialized literacy strategies unique to content area disciplines. - This course is for students that have demonstrated proficiency in elementary literacy through reading screener and SOL assessments. This course will address both content area literacy as well as discipline specific literacy skills. The focus of this course is to engage in discipline specific reading and writing. Analyzing primary sources as a historian, reviewing data, charts and graphs as a mathematician or scientist, and utilizing argument writing for defending conclusions. Students will be taught the ways literacy is used to create, disseminate, and critique information in the various disciplines.