cross-curricular+literacy

Literacy Across the Curriculum
We use our literacy skills everyday to help us understand the variety of texts that cross our paths. Our understanding of these texts depends on who produced the text, the thinking represented in the text and why we are "looking at/reading" this text. For this reason the same topic or subject can be viewed/read in a different way. Our Grade 7, 8 and 9 Transitions Literacy Networks explored cross curricular literacy in a variety of ways. Check out the resources below to get a sense of what developed.

Take a look at how the subject area we use as our "lens" for viewing changes the way we read the text.

Ministry curriculum for language arts includes a specific expectation on "Point of View" in all 4 strands: oral communication (1.8), reading (1.9), writing (2.5) and media literacy (1.5). As well, language that indicates a focus on "point of view, perspective, stance..." is present in many of our other subject specific curriculum documents. This presents us with an easy way to integrate and reinforce learning across the curriculum!

[[image:dpcdsb-mti/new_25.gif]]Intermediate Division Curriculum Maps
The following templates were designed to help teachers look for and plan the possible connections that can be made between reading and writing expectations and the various other disciplines we teach.

Grade 7 & 8 Curriculum Map:
use the following template to help you "map" out the connections that can be made from the reading and writing expectations into the other subject areas grade 7 and 8 students study.

Grade 9 & 10 Curriculum Map:
the following template could help you see opportunities for integration of reading and writing expectations in the other subjects grade 9 and 10 students study.