“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Suess had the right idea in identifying reading as a vehicle for opportunities in life. Yet the rigor of reading disappears as students enter high school and teachers are at a loss as to how to address reading deficiencies in students. Susan Woo, a literacy curriculum coordinator and Anne Linville, a high school literacy consultant from Edmonton Public Schools share their experience of how they piloted a disciplinary literacy collaborative framework to motivate teachers to incorporate literacy instruction in their classrooms. Discipline literacy differs from content literacy strategies in that it considers the approaches, perspective and processes that are unique to a subject discipline. Their work is based on Releah Cossett Lent's best-selling book This is Disciplinary Literacy.
