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NWP Radio—What’s Next: Possibilities for Literacy and Content Area Learning
Date: March 11, 2010
Summary: Listen to a post-conference discussion with NWP leaders about the Writing Project's work with content-area teachers and disciplinary literacy. This program follows up NWP's "What's Next: Possibilities for Literacy and Content Area Learning conference" held in March 2010 in New Orleans.
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One of the things that I think was exciting about this conference that pulled everything together was what Elizabeth Birr Moje did at the beginning of the conference in her keynote, because she pulled all of those strands together in her work....
She showed us how some of our traditional reading strategies based in disciplinary knowledge can work, but only if all of the other conditions in the situation are right to start with. And students have to be engaged.
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Related Resources on NWP.org
Disciplinary Literacy: Why It Matters and What We Should Do About It- Elizabeth Birr Moje on "Disciplinary Literacy" and Reading Across the Content Areas
