How can science teachers use complex text in engaging their students – which research supports is what increases test scores? This session has cross curricular significance. Our aim is to help teachers increase student disciplinary literacy. We will show you how to incorporate authentic texts and model instructional processes to help develop your disciplinary literacy understanding. This would be an excellent way to foster discipline-specific literacy instructional processes, mainly for science teachers, but with extended applicability for social studies. the arts, as well as health and PE.

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Hand, Brian. Negotiating Science: The Critical Role of Argument in Student Inquiry, Grades 5-10.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009. Print.