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Elizabeth Birr Moje on "Disciplinary Literacy" and Reading Across the Content Areas

Elizabeth Birr Moje makes the case for a disciplinary literacy that, rather than hewing to generic literacy "strategies," focuses on the literacy skills required of practitioners in a content field. More ›

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Adolescent Literacy Reports from Carnegie Corporation Detail Plan of Action Time to Act Report Cover

Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success sets out a national agenda for fully supporting young learners and using evidence-based case studies to boost adolescent literacy rates. More ›

NWP Radio—What's Next: Possibilities for Literacy and Content Area Learning

Listen to a post-conference discussion with NWP leaders about the Writing Project's work with content-area teachers and disciplinary literacy. This program follows up NWP's "What's Next: Possibilities for Literacy and Content Area Learning conference" held in March 2010 in New Orleans. More ›

An Annotated Bibliography for Elizabeth Birr Moje

Elizabeth Birr Moje, self-described "friend of the National Writing Project," offers some of the most provocative viewpoints in content area literacy research today. This annotated bibliography can serve as a primer of some of her recent works. More ›


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