Disciplinary Literacies

Catalog description

Drawing on the MA DESE Standards for Literacy in the Content Areas 6-12, this course examines disciplinary and informational literacy in inclusive secondary classrooms, and strategies to support diverse learners, including multilingual students and students with disabilities, in accessing discipline-specific texts. Diverse text types and genres are examined for their complexity, content, linguistic features, and possibilities as mentor texts for writing. The processes for teaching argumentative, informational, narrative, and multimodal, multi-genre writing are also explored.