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Content Matters: A Disciplinary Literacy Approach to Improving Student Learning 1st Edition

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (December 2, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470434112
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470434116
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.7 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsContent Matters provides an elegant rethinking of our craft.
By J9 on February 5, 2014
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In a climate where the term"literacy" is so ubiquitous that it has lost its meaning, this text provides a refocusing for readers of what it really means to be literate within a particular content area.

Each chapter provides deep, clear insight into how content-specific literacy is developed. Building deep content knowledge from complex text is the task, and this clarification provides a response to the cry, "I'm not a reading teacher."

While the chapters move across disciplines, a common, inquiry-based methodology is also outlined and can be seen at the core of each discipline-specific chapter. That methodology has profound implications for educators especially in light of the CCSS.

This text helped me to understand that, as experts in our disciplines, we need to apprentice students to the knowledge and content of each field not by showing or doing the work for them, but by supporting them as they struggle to make meaning from the complex text of each discipline. While this might be something that a good educator "already knows", as one reviewer stated, it is a far cry from what most educators remember to do in a climate that has spawned so many misguided practices. The message here is both a return and a step forward. Content Matters provides an elegant reminder of what is at the heart if our craft.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book for thinking about literacy across the disciplines
By Amazon Customer on February 5, 2014
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Content Matters is an extremely useful tool for understanding how inquiry and academically productive talk can support literacy development and improve student learning. Each chapter focuses on supporting literacy development in the different disciplines and moves from providing the how and the why to showing what the practices look like in real classrooms through case studies.

Being able to read about literacy development in the different subject areas has helped me to understand not only what I should be doing to help my students further develop their literacy skills in the ELA classroom, but to think about the literacy skills they may develop in math, science, and history and how I may be able to build upon the literacy practices of other disciplines. It’s not often that teachers of different disciplines get together to talk about the literacy they teach, Content Matters would be great to use in a PLC as a tool to open the lines of communication between teachers in thinking about literacy and how we can work across the content areas to strengthen students’ skills.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Helpful Guide Across Disciplines
By Allison E. on February 5, 2014
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Content Matters has helped me understand and apply the principles of disciplinary literacy in my work. This book encouraged me to consider the various ways each discipline values and uses reading, writing, talking, and reasoning to scaffold students’ learning of content knowledge appropriate to particular disciplines. Particularly helpful, the ELA lesson and design features outline concrete ways to apprentice students into ELA work. I have come across numerous articles and books that describe how students can think like a scientist or think like a historian. As someone who cares deeply about the study English Language Arts, I found value in outlining what it means to work in ways specific to ELA instead of treating ELA with a generalist approach. This book also helped me locate similarities and differences among the ways various disciplines understand the use of evidence and what it means to engage in inquiry. After reading this book, I not only understand the work of other disciplines better, but I also understand how to scaffold students’ work in ways specific to my content area, ELA.
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5.0 out of 5 starsI Keep Coming Back To This Book!
By Betsy B on February 12, 2014
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I feel compelled to write a review, as this is the third time I’m coming back to this book.

My initial encounter was as a middle school math teacher. I was pretty good but I didn’t realize I was working harder than my students and not as smartly as I could. Disciplinary Literacy, and more specifically the chapter on the Mathematics Classroom, gave me a more defined bigger picture and focused me. I needed to work hard, but smart. The key was consistency.

As a math coach at an urban high school, my next phase was brought on by the principal’s desire to bring the school community together to talk about and investigate what it means for students to experience a consistent message across contents. Chapters One, Two and Seven provide common language and the content chapters give specific scenarios that name moves teachers and students can make to access prior knowledge and co-construct new learning.

Now, as a relatively new instruction and learning coach for all content areas, I return to Content Matters as a pedagogical and content resource that will support and ground the work of the school with working towards the goals of empowerment and inquiry.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Must Read for Secondary Administrators
By Lynn W on February 7, 2014
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As a district English language arts administrator, I found the book Content Matters extremely helpful. Not only did the chapter “Disciplinary Literary in the English Language Arts Classroom” affirm my thinking around quality instruction, it provided me with additional information concerning quality unit design.

Our district middle and K-8 administrators studied Content Matters as part of a professional development series and felt the information was extremely helpful.
It is imperative that administrators understand that each content area is unique in the way that students are required to read, write, think and talk. Content Matters provides that and more. Chapters and case studies devoted to each discipline, as well as insightful introductory and concluding chapters provide administrators with a window into what quality teaching looks like in each discipline.
Content Matters is a must-read in a time when principals are required to be instructional leaders and assist teachers in all content areas.
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