Students use varied and complex literacy skills to solve problems and communicate their thinking in science, history, and English Language Arts. To support students’ continued development in these areas, teachers need to build students’ literacy skills toward discipline-specific ways of reading and writing. In this blog, we respond to the following questions:  

1. What is disciplinary literacy?
2. Why do differences in disciplinary literacies matter?

We conclude with a brief overview of Project READi, which offers teachers free resources to build their disciplinary-literacy instructional approach.