{"product_id":"power-tools-30-critical-disciplinary-literacy-strategies-for-6-12-classrooms-9781975505547","title":"Power Tools: 30 Critical Disciplinary Literacy Strategies for 6-12 Classrooms","description":"Virtually all national standards now require students and teachers to understand the particulars of disciplinary literacy. But recently emerging scholarship suggests that disciplinary literacy is, by itself, an incomplete and potentially problematic approach to secondary literacy instruction. By asking students to \"think like\" or even \"be like\" experts, students may receive implicit messaging about whose knowledge is--and isn't--valued. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritical disciplinary literacy (CDL) creates space for, and highlights connections between, critical literacies and disciplinary literacies. CDL acknowledges disciplines as unique communities with their own specialized (and often exclusionary) skills, norms, practices, and discourses, but deviates from conventional applications of disciplinary literacy by responding to the ways in which power systems and the analytic skills needed to understand them work \u003ci\u003edifferently\u003c\/i\u003e based on the disciplines at hand. A CDL instructional approach acknowledges that applying the critical literacy skills of \"reading the word and the world\" to understand the power dynamics of vaccine distributions requires a different skill set and strategy approach than looking at textual representations of masculinity in \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by a team of educators with over 70 combined years of classroom experience, \u003ci\u003ePower Tools: 30 Critical Disciplinary Literacy Strategies for 6-12 Classrooms\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers research-based, multidisciplinary, ready-to-implement disciplinary literacy strategies from critical literacy lenses. The book sets itself apart from other strategy textbooks by offering creative strategy implementation that calls attention to power systems. Educators can learn, for example, how they might employ read-alouds to explore the global refugee crisis, or use the exit ticket strategy to help students reflect on the relationship between race and COVID statistics\/experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePower Tools: 30 Critical Disciplinary Literacy Strategies for 6-12 Classrooms\u003c\/i\u003e provides standards-aligned lessons that both challenge and extend traditional engagement practices to build a more just world. Each chapter includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn overview of each strategy, situated within the research of best practices;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo disciplinary examples for each CDL strategy (e.g., an example of a CDL think-aloud in seventh grade math and tenth grade ELA classroom). Chapters provide resources such as examples of student work, discussion prompts, dialogue between teacher and students, and reprintables;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdeas for addressing resistance to CDL instruction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreservice and in-service teachers, as well as teacher educators and researchers, looking to do and support justice-oriented work in disciplinary spaces will find value in the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePower Tools\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal text to implement in courses such as Disciplinary Literacy, Secondary Literacy, Content Area Literacy, Methods\/Strategies for Teaching Social Justice, Multicultural Education, ELA methods, Science methods, Social Studies methods, and Mathematics methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Myers Education Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725786747154,"sku":"9781975505547","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_395cd196-33b4-4364-9b65-c45153630899.jpg?v=1734845264","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/power-tools-30-critical-disciplinary-literacy-strategies-for-6-12-classrooms-9781975505547","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}