Content-Area Literacy Professional Learning

The Story of SCORE: The Mississippi Writing/Thinking Institute Takes on a Statewide Reading Initiative

By Lynette Herring-Harris and Cassandria Hansbrough

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This monograph is a realistic look at how a well-established National Writing Project state network broadened its teacher-consultant leadership capacity while taking on a state initiative and turning it into an opportunity to forge strong alliances with educational policymakers. It describes a professional development program for secondary reading that began as a passing comment in a staff meeting and grew into a statewide model for secondary reading instruction. The story of this inservice model includes site directors who trusted teacher-consultants and let teacher-consultants from across the state work cooperatively to develop a new model for professional growth, SCORE: Secondary Content Opening to Reading Excellence, that would stand up to the challenges of preparing secondary teachers to teach reading as well as content-area material.

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Content-Area Literacy Professional Learning

Disciplinary, Content-Area Literacy: An Annotated Bibliography

By Judith Rodby

What’s Next: Possibilities for Literacy and Content Area Learning (NWP Radio)

Disciplinary Literacy and Reading Across the Content Areas

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.