Disciplinary Literacy: Why It Matters and What We Should Do About It

This resource introduces the work of Elizabeth Birr Moje and prepares viewers for watching the recording of her keynote to NWP’s Reading Initiative Conference. The keynote introduces the basic concept of disciplinary literacy with a focus on secondary level classrooms.

This short chapter from When Teaching Writing Gets Tough: Challenges and Possibilities in Secondary Writing Instruction offers three suggestions for changing your writing instruction to support student writers as independent decision makers.