Please respond to this post with a summary of the argument (including the types of evidence used) as well as a link to both your post and the post you commented on by October 3 at 9:00AM–
Guiding Questions:
As you read this week’s texts, think specifically about the kind of argumentation that the writers are engaging in.
What claims do they make?
How do they support those claims? — aka what kind of evidence? What do you notice about the way the evidence is worded?
Try matching your own writing in this post to the standards you see in the texts.
Tuesday Reading(s):
read an article (2) from the additional readings list AND watch a lesson from tedd.org or SHEG
In-class reading: sections from Schleppegrell (2009)
Thursday Reading(s):
read an article (3) from the additional readings list AND watch a lesson from tedd.org or SHEG
In class reading: sections from Wenger-Trayner (2015)
Content Area Reading 2019 
MY BLOG: https://livelearn.school.blog/2019/09/30/blog-5-its-not-just-on-us/
In this post, I argued that teaching “English” is not just on the English teachers. I used Smagorinsky’s text to support my claims. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening differs across disciplines.
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MY RESPONSE: https://pasedu247.home.blog/2019/09/27/blog-post-5-there-are-complexities-on-reading-comprehension-when-there-is-an-explicit-focus-on-reading-in-the-disciplines/comment-page-1/?unapproved=7&moderation-hash=be7fe96e0627a36a56d98cba1b3fc4c6#comment-7
In my comment, I questioned why the writer agreed with author of the article he/she read. What are the negatives? I also brought up questions about opportunity gap.
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Here is my post:
I stated that the claims being made in the two different articles were about how academic achievement is increased when disciplinary literacy is taught and how mathematics usually ignores disciplinary literacy, but secondary level math teachers should be pushed to teach it.
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This blog details what mid-lesson teacher collaboration is as well as the yays and nays of integrating climate change into the classroom and the research as to why we should.
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My blog talks about how a community changes based on the needs of those within it.
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My second article was arguing that cooperative learning is more beneficial to students than instruction from an educator.
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my blog talks about how the foundation needs to be laid before teaching disciplinary literacy.
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my comment: https://batmanandrobinandace.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/collab-and-climate/#comment-8
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My blog discusses how choosing to teach one way in a history classroom (or any classroom) can be damaging to students and how we as teachers need to mix it up
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my comment: https://warandmath.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/math-as-an-art/comment-page-1/?unapproved=8&moderation-hash=fd4d8deea5df7270bf494daf393ecbc6#comment-8
my post: https://blogger25.home.blog/2019/10/01/blog-post-5/
my blog talks about how it is important to use disciplinary literacy in all subjects, not just English.
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Here is the link to my comment:
They argued that the claims in the article were unclear which made it confusing. Additionally, they mentioned that that digital texts and technology has helped learning, but also can hinder learning and stray students away from what they are actually learning.
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My Post: https://boisterousbird.home.blog/2019/09/30/week-6-disciplinary-literacy-teaching/
I argued that learning from apprenticeships can be extremely beneficial especially in the realm of mathematics. I also argued that the path from point A to point B in regards to problem-solving isn’t going to look the same for every student. I used evidence from the article I read and the author in the article supported their claim from other respected people in the field.
Post 1: https://contentareareading837963073.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/weekly-blog-post-5/
I argued that we should teach our students in a way that supports their learning best rather than they way we learned ourselves. I used what I learned in other methods courses to support my claim.
I didn’t comment on a post last week so here’s another post to make up for it.
Post 2: https://dameatman.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/blog-post-5/
I argued that while discussion can be a teacher’s biggest asset or deficit, they can also be a students dream or nightmare. My evidence to support this claim came from personal experience.
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my post: https://dameatman.wordpress.com
I argued the importance/use of fishbowls
my response: https://contentareareading837963073.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/weekly-blog-post-5/
they argued the value of including student interest into lessons to contain student engagement
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My Blog: https://happiestteacher.school.blog/2019/09/29/october-1-2019-how-does-a-mathematician-think/
–In my blog, I argue that teachers should understand how the experts of a discipline think in order to encourage students to think like that expert through disciplinary literacy techniques. Since my content area of focus is mathematics, I focused my blog on how mathematicians think. I then used that information to form some ideas of how I can incorporate that into my disciplinary literacy teaching techniques to get the students to think like a mathematician. My evidence for my blog came from a study titled, “Analysis of Expert Readers in Three Disciplines: History, Mathematics, and Chemistry,” where a study was conducted to compare and contrast how experts of the disciplines of History, Mathematics, and Chemistry read a text.
My Response: https://dennison77.home.blog/2019/10/01/week-6/
–This blog argued that disciplinary literacy is important for teachers to implement in their classrooms. However, the author also questions when too much information is too much information and offered the idea of gradually building the content from the basics up to the higher-level content. The evidence the author used in this blog was his or her personal experiences as a student in a classroom.
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Here is the link to my blog:
In my blog I argue that there are complexities on reading comprehension when there is an explicit focus on reading in the disciplines.
Here is the link to the blog I commented on: https://pasedu247.home.blog/2019/09/27/blog-post-5-there-are-complexities-on-reading-comprehension-when-there-is-an-explicit-focus-on-reading-in-the-disciplines/
In this blog post they argue that co-teaching can have it benefits and drawbacks.
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This is the link I commented on.
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In this post I argue that teaching students to read like a historian will further their knowledge of the historical topic and help them expand their metaphorical tool belt of skills that can be used outside of school.
In this response I stress how important it is for teachers to assess their students’ knowledge and skillset prior to starting a new lesson.
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my blog: https://mannythemammoth.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/disciplinary-literacy-the-sequel-2/
My comment: https://granolabarz.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/inviting-your-students-to-participate-in-the-community-of-literary-studies/comment-page-1/#comment-10
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In my classmates blog, they talk about disciplinary literacy and how they saw that in schools:
In my blog I talk about stepping out of comfort zones and how disciplinary literacy is actually applied in the math setting:
https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/centralperk373122939.wordpress.com/41
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In my blog this week, my argument was based around the stigma that mathematics classrooms are believed to only involve the reading of numbers. However, mathematics is much more than just finding a solution to a problem and moving on. Students gain valuable skills while working with mathematical problems that can be related to the real-world. The article I read, “Using transactional reading strategies to support sense-making and discussion in mathematics classrooms: An exploratory study,” written by Borasi, Raffaella; Siegel, Marjorie; Fonzi, Judith; Smith, and Constance F., dug into the idea that mathematics classrooms need to begin incorporating more types of reading into their classroom other than just word problems that are illogical.
https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/166072011/posts/42
Within the blog I commented on, they argued that there are more things that teachers need to take into consideration while teaching students to learn. It may be frustrating when students do not understand something that you might find simple. However, if you do not get to know your students, how will you know why they are having a difficult time understanding? The writer of the blog argues that teachers need to understand the social-emotional changes students are going through as well as their life outside of school which could prevent them from being fluent, confident readers.
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I argue that the reason so many people don’t find joy in math is they didn’t learn in a disciplinary literacy based classroom.
They argued that when teaching, it is important to give students a strong foundation.
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My blog this week talks about why we teach what we do and considers the implications of those decisions. https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/99573420/posts/2432523177
My comment is on a blog discussing a very similar topic as my blog, but is more student centered.
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In my blog post, I argue that teaching with lessons that involve student-centered discussion, argumentation, and where teachers do not explain or guide ‘correct’ thinking are lessons where students will learn and develop their thoughts, and new ones, the most.
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My Blog: irishiz8.home.blog/2019/09/30/the-art-of-being-a-responsible-citizen/
I challenge the theory of “read like a historian” and believe that this way of teaching disciplinary literacy is not an accurate strategy nor does it do the art justice. Teaching disciplinary literacy is far more complex than just saying this simple statement.
My Response: https://readingincontentarea.home.blog/2019/10/02/blog-3/comment-page-1/?unapproved=7&moderation-hash=3a4a082df8a1652331bc364823431def#comment-7
I argue that yes, it is important to start introducing disciplinary literacy to young elementary-aged students, however if it is done so in a poor manner, then there is no point. It needs to be done in a smart and informative way.
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I argue that teachers need to take responsibility and awareness for their responsibility as moral agents in students lives.
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Boisterous Bird looks at the idea of apprenticeship as proposed in her article.
Blogger 25 analyses academic language and its use in the school system.
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My post: I discuss the benefits of Appleman’s approach to implementing critcal theory in the classroom https://greenlighteducation.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/new-perspectives-from-deborah-appleman/
My comment:https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/166127043/posts/65
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My comment: https://dennison77.home.blog/2019/10/01/week-6/comment-page-1/?unapproved=7&moderation-hash=6bd1d48e06d4f11458fd2c602e6037ac#comment-7
This blog argues that disciplinary literacy needs to be scaffolded into the classroom. They use a article to back up their ideas.
My blog: https://teachingisanart.school.blog/2019/09/30/examining-research/
My blog argues that across educational research there are common themes to how they structure the research. I use an article and a video to help explain these ideas.
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My blog: https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/jumboshrimp45.wordpress.com/62
The blog with my comment: https://blogger25.home.blog/2019/10/01/blog-post-5/
My blog post argues that students must learn how to proficiently write a history teacher from their content area history teacher. The writing style must be specific to the professional historian discipline found in history classrooms. I support this claim by incorporating past experiences, explaining present experiences, discussing the words of professional teachers, and using the thoughts of professional historians. The blog I commented on argues that math teachers must incorporate disciplinary literacy into their classrooms. She supports this claim by incorporating math techniques supported by Common Core State Standard’s and summaries selected from two journal articles.
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My blog (correct link): https://jumboshrimp45.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/teaching-history-papers/
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In my comment, I argue the importance of cultural and emotional learning:
In my blog, I argue how it is important to guide students to think like an expert in their content, but it could be a very demanding challenge for a middle school teacher.
https://wordpress.com/view/shanseducationblog.wordpress.com
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In my blog post I argue that mathematical literacy is in the CCSS and show how communication is a very big aspect in math. https://contentareareadingeducationblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/blog-post-5/
My comment: https://blogger25.home.blog/2019/10/01/blog-post-5/comment-page-1/?unapproved=7&moderation-hash=a8e1934239ee5ae9c49648b90ad5249d#comment-7
They argued that disciplinary literacy is important across all subject areas and showing how the CCSS are now implementing more aspects of disciplinary literacy in the standards.
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The excerpt I read was called Literacy in the Mathematics Classroom from the book Teaching Dilemmas and Solutions in Content-Area Literacy, Grades 6-12. The authors discussed content-area literacy specific to the math classroom and argued the different ways that literacy should be used in mathematics, and also, the ways it is already being used. Being math educators themselves, the evidence they used was from personal experience, a very valuable kind in my eyes because we see as readers first-hand what these teachers experienced and how literacy in the classroom worked for them.
Smagorinsky, Peter, and Peter Smagorinsky. Teaching Dilemmas and Solutions in Content-Area Literacy, Grades 6-12. Corwin, 2014.
In my response to batmanandrobinandace, I discuss the reality of co-teaching in schools, https://batmanandrobinandace.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/collab-and-climate/comment-page-1/?unapproved=7&moderation-hash=121c158bc9a9c53140e5acca149388ca#comment-7
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My post discusses the need for strong analysis when scaffolding.
My comment
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Here is my response to Lee’s dimensions within teaching reading in the disciplines: https://pasedu247.home.blog/2019/09/27/blog-post-5-there-are-complexities-on-reading-comprehension-when-there-is-an-explicit-focus-on-reading-in-the-disciplines/comment-page-1/?unapproved=9&moderation-hash=847724042398b8176ed0a6fc795b0971#comment-9
Here is my blog post citing Smagorinsky about how we as teachers (and as a community) need to stop placing the blame of students not knowing how to read things like historically documents on the English teacher. They’re trying their best.:https://littleteacherbigworld04.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/smagorinsky-stop-blaming-the-english-teachers/
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In my comment I add what I viewed as important about the new teaching strategy they described, as well as tried to pose questions for the student to think more critically about the assignment, instead of viewing it with 100% positivity.
In my blog post I argue the cost and benefits of integrating Digital Literacy into a Literary classroom, and also make note of how confusing the article that was fighting for this push was.
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https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/99593598/posts/2435268864
How can apps be beneficial for students in the classroom??
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In my blog I discussed digital literacies and how they apply to mathematics and disciplinary literacy: https://meatballsmarinara.school.blog/2019/10/03/digital-literacies-across-the-content-areas/
In the blog I commented on this week, the author made a claim about the benefits of scaffolding disciplinary literacy: https://readingincontentarea.home.blog/2019/10/02/blog-3/comment-page-1/?unapproved=9&moderation-hash=a669a059006db2b15445d57fd4a7c53e#comment-9
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https://flavortownusa.school.blog/2019/10/01/developing-childrens-understanding-of-rational-numbers/ my blog talks about how to develop students’ understanding of rational numbers and how to approach the topic.
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Here is my blog were I argue that the author uses a great form of evidence by citing the dialogue directly from the classroom he observed from. In addition, I agree with his claim how history teachers don’t teach directly from the textbook and have a much more complexed way of designing a lesson plan. :https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/dogandcatperson.home.blog/53
Here is the blog I commented on: https://larissasblogonhere.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/but-what-does-it-look-like/#comments
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