Connecting Across Disciplines: Collaborating with Informational Text - Softcover

Chenelle, Susan

 
9781475820287: Connecting Across Disciplines: Collaborating with Informational Text

Synopsis

While the Common Core has made informational text a focal point in English/language arts classrooms around the country, it has also made literacy a key concern in other subjects. Teaching literacy in the disciplines and navigating informational texts are challenging prospects. How can content-area teachers find high-quality informational texts that will enhance their curriculum? How do they go about working with these new texts? Most importantly, how do teachers balance their responsibility towards their subject matter with the new charge to incorporate disciplinary literacy? The key is to connect, communicate, and collaborate. Teachers can meet these challenges together and enhance student literacy, engagement, and motivation along the way. This volume offers a practical model that teachers in any discipline can use to incorporate informational texts into their classrooms on their own or in collaboration with colleagues in other content areas. We also share suggestions and ideas for initiating and implementing collaboration between teachers of any discipline, even those working at the secondary level with complex schedules and curricula.

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About the Author

Audrey Fisch is Professor of English and Coordinator of Secondary English Education at New Jersey City University where she has taught for over twenty years.

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9781475820270: Connecting Across Disciplines: Collaborating with Informational Text

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ISBN 10:  1475820275 ISBN 13:  9781475820270
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publish..., 2016
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