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Subject Literacy

Explore resources and guidance on subject literacy to support teaching and learning across different disciplines.

Last updated 8 September 2026

A case study of designing technology enhanced learning in an elementary school in Singapore

A project for teaching critical reading and writing

Academic conversations

Advanced reasoning and communication in Maths

All about disciplinary literacy

Assessing communicative competence

Building literacy communities of practice across subject disciplines in secondary schools

Challenges faced by teachers of English language learners and limited English proficiency students

Changing classroom discourse patterns through the scaffolding approach

Children's talk and reasoning

Classroom dialogue

Classroom interaction in science

Classroom talk in secondary social studies

Community inquiry and understanding Maths

Competencies for teachers of English learners

Construction of Scientific knowledge through writing

Creative tensions in teaching new texts and new literacies

Dialogic and authoritative discourse in Science teaching

Dialogic Interactions and Feedback

Dialogic space interactions

Dialogic teaching in the primary Science classroom

Disciplinary literacies and Functional language analysis

Disciplinary literacy and 21st century demands

Disciplinary Literacy and Struggling Learners

Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary School

Disciplinary literacy in Engineering

Disciplines in Secondary literacy teaching

Educating the next generation of literacy teachers

ICT in learning task design and implementation

Implementation of Differentiated Instruction

Improving Teacher Questioning in Science

Incorporating reasoning and communication into Mathematics

Integrating writing into Macroeconomics

Investigating a disciplinary approach to literacy learning in a secondary school

Investigating language learner strategies

Learning academy Vocabulary

Literacy and Multimodal Texts

Literacy in content areas

Literacy pedagogical content knowledge

Mapping subject specific literacies

Mathematics and Language

Multiliteracies, pedagogy and identities

Multimodal construction

Oracy in Mathematics

Oral presentation in mathematics

Reading in the disciplines

Reading like a Historian

Reading multiple historical texts

Recontextualising reading, rethinking teaching

Role of teacher questioning in promoting student engagement

Scaffolding 4th Grade Students’ Scientific Explanation Writing

School Discourse

Science, language and young learners

Students’ and teachers’ perceptions of students’ self assessment ability

Subject specific Literacy and School Learning

Supporting middle school students with content area academic language

Talk for promoting enjoyment and developing understanding in Science

Talk in Mathematics classes in Singapore

Teacher and student questioning in Maths

Teacher Questioning in Science Classrooms

Teachers’ concerns about vocabulary in content literacy methodology textbooks

Teachers' use of questioning and modelling comprehension skills in primary classrooms

The analysis and reconciliation of students’ rebuttals in argumentation activities

The language of different types of explanations in junior high school Science texts

The pedagogical practices of a 'Document based lesson'

The role of exploratory talk in classroom search engine tasks

The role of language in learning history

The role of language in learning history

The use of classroom talk and multiple representations in teaching Science

Using Questioning to Guide Student Thinking

Using student's Out of Classroom experiences for learning

Why disciplinary literacy

Writing in Archaeology

Writing with 'Voiced' in Science