Disciplinary+Literacy

= = =__** General Information and Resources **__= [|DPI website containing links to all content areas]

[|Disciplinary Literacy LiveBinder]

[|Disciplinary Literacy in Social Studies]

[|Doug Buehl's Customizing Strategies for Disciplinary Literacy]

=__ Content Area Reading passages __= [|ReadWorks] [|Tween Tribune] [|Elementary passages by grade level 1-6] [|Achieve the Core Close Reading model lessons] [|Reading passages] [|Non-fiction one page reading passages by grade level] [|Fiction one page reading passages by grade level] [|42Explore] [|Time for Kids] [|Wonderopolis] [|National Geographic Young Explorers] [|Sports Illustrated for Kids] [|Teachers College Reading and Writing Project – text sets in science and social studies]

=__Grammar Information__=

This is not a technology tip but a valuable set of recommendations around "teaching" grammar authentically which reinforces teaching it as an integrated part of writing workshop. In fact, s entence fixing is not effective for several reasons. First, we want to show our students examples of good writing, not bad writing! Second, it’s not engaging. Third, research shows that using sentence fixing activities does not result in students applying these same skills in their own writing, which is the standard we wish to reach in all aspects of writing.

Students need to see examples of good grammar, good use of capitalization, and good punctuation, and they need opportunities to apply these skills to their own writing. We need to point out how and why published authors choose punctuation marks in the context of real texts. We need to talk to them about __why__ published authors follow grammar rules and what effect it has on us, as readers. And we also need to give our kids opportunities to go try out grammatical structures, different punctuation, and capitalization in their own writing. Basically, kids need to **see and use grammar in real contexts.** It does not favor teaching fix-up strategies in isolation which Daily Oral Language promotes. [|Five Recommendations for Teaching Common Core Grammar to Elementary Student] s