Academic Literacies in the Middle Years: A Framework for Enhancing Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement

by Sally Humphrey

Overview

The professional learning framework this book presents is designed to support teachers’ understandings of how language functions in their academic disciplines. This framework—a 4 x 4 metalinguistic toolkit—is informed by systemic functional linguistic theory and international educational research on academic and disciplinary literacies.

The book shows and explains how teachers have applied specific 4 x 4 toolkits with students in middle school classrooms across a range of subjects for curriculum literacy instruction, assessment and feedback, resulting in substantial growth for their students in high-stakes national tests of literacy, as well as writing assessments in a number of subjects. In its focus on disciplinary literacies in diverse sociocultural settings, Academic Literacies in the Middle Years responds to contemporary international curricula for English language and literacy and the need for a strong evidence base for professional learning design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317232438
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/18/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	274
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Sally Humphrey is Senior Lecturer, English and Literacies Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 The Context of Middle Years Literacy Research

2 Design and Foundations of a Metalanguage Framework

3 Designing Literacy interventions

4 Exploring Narratives as Prose and Drama Script

5 Writing Responses to Analyse Cultural Works

6 Factorial Explanations in History, Science and the Social Sciences

7 Persuading Audiences in the Academic Domain

8 Persuasion for Civic Purposes

9 Towards Design Principles for Middle Years Literacies

Index

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides essential content for teacher preparation to support students as they cope with texts in the various content areas. It provides the foundation to learn the language students need to function in school, especially under the current pressure to emphasize academic literacy. Without the emphasis on language, schools will not succeed in supporting students achieve in disciplinary literacies."

Maria Brisk, Boston College, USA

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