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Enhancing Literacy Skills for Specialised Subjects: A Teacher's Guide

Explore strategies to enhance literacy skills tailored to history, science, math, and more. Learn how to go beyond basic fluency and comprehension, focusing on critical literacy and depth of instruction.

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Enhancing Literacy Skills for Specialised Subjects: A Teacher's Guide

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  1. Beyond NCEA Level 1 Literacy

  2. Literacy beyond the demands of Level 1 Disciplinary Literacy: Literacy skills specialised to history, science, mathematics, literature, or other subject matter. Intermediate Literacy: Literacy skills common to many tasks, including generic comprehension strategies, common word meanings, and basic fluency. Basic Literacy: Literacy skills such as decoding and knowledge of high-frequency words that underlie virtually all reading tasks. Shanahan & Shanahan’s (2008) model of the increased demand for specialisation of literacy development

  3. Teacher actions for literacy enhancement • Students need exposure to extended texts that require interpretation within the discipline context.

  4. Teacher actions for literacy enhancement • Vocabulary and literacy demands need to go beyond a glossary of terms

  5. Teacher actions for literacy enhancement • Extended discussions to give students opportunities to build and use subject –specific language and demands • Formative assessments should allow practice of skills not just content

  6. Teacher actions for literacy enhancement • Need a focus on critical literacy and instructional depth

  7. New Zealand Curriculum Requirements • “for each area, students need specific help from their teachers as they learn … how to listen and read critically, assessing the value of what they hear and read” (NZC, p. 16).

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