Disciplinary Literacy

I was recently reading the July-August 2025 issue of “The Science Teacher”, a publication of the National Science Teaching Association. In this issue, I read the section, “Editor’s Corner” written by Brooke A Whitworth.  She wrote an article entitled, “Developing Disciplinary Literacy.”

We can think of disciplinary literacy in two ways, when it comes to science:

1.  Broadly, in terms of how science compares to other content areas.

2.  Specifically, in terms of how the subdiscipline of chemistry differs from biology or physics or earth science.

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