Preparing Teachers for Disciplinary Literacy Instruction
Tuesday, August 5 | 6:30–7:45 p.m. ET

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Literacies and Languages for All (LLA) invites NCTE members to join an interactive session focused on disciplinary literacy instruction in teacher education. Dr. Zhihui Fang, professor of language and literacy education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida, and author of Demystifying Academic Reading: A Disciplinary Literacy Approach to Reading Across Content Areas, will highlight assignments, activities, and resources that he has found valuable in preparing K–12 teachers for disciplinary literacy instruction.  

Dr. Fang will invite discussion on how attendees may adapt or expand upon these ideas in their own teaching contexts. Following the presentation, participants will have an opportunity to work in small groups to share and revise syllabi for graduate and undergraduate courses focused on disciplinary literacy instruction. Attendees are encouraged to bring a course syllabus they are working with for an upcoming semester. 

Attendees will

• deepen their understanding of strategies for promoting disciplinary literacy across the content areas,
• collaboratively review and/or develop course syllabi in small groups, and
• build a community for further collaboration on disciplinary literacy.

Purchase a copy of Multimodal Funds of Knowledge in Literacy: Countering Deficit Narratives of Diverse Families. (NCTE and independent bookstores receive a small commission from purchases made using the Bookshop.org link provided.) 

Please contact profdev@ncte.org with questions. Registration will close 90 minutes prior to the event’s start time. 

Dr. Zhihui Fang is a professor of language and literacy education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida. His scholarly interests include reading comprehension, emergent literacy, disciplinary literacy, literacy teacher education, functional grammar, and academic writing. His recent research explores the role of language and literacy in content area learning and teaching. His latest books include Using Functional Grammar in English Literacy Teaching and Learning (2021), Demystifying Academic Writing: Genres, Moves, Skills, and Strategies (2021), and Demystifying Academic Reading: A Disciplinary Literacy Approach to Reading Across Content Areas (2024). 

FACILITATORS

Kathryn Mitchell Pierce, associate professor in literacy, Saint Louis University, Missouri 

Yang Wang, professor in language and literacy, University of South Carolina, Columbia