Academic Literacies in the Middle Years

<p>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. </p><p>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 <i>Academic Literacies in the Middle Years</i> responds to contemporary international curricula for English language and literacy and the need for a strong evidence base for professional learning design.</p>