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Sequenced literacy units organized around a Driving Task Prompt moving through comprehension, knowledge building, genre study, synthesis, and writing

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Description

This pattern organizes curriculum units and modules around a Driving Task Prompt within a disciplinary-literacy framework. Students explore complex, diverse texts through a sequenced instructional journey that includes comprehension, knowledge building, genre study, synthesis, and writing. The design purposefully builds knowledge and supports text-based analysis and communication across genres and formats.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Units require complex, diverse texts and standards-aligned rubrics for embedded formative assessment of performance tasks.

Constraints

Target Learners

  • middle school students
  • eighth-grade students

Learning Goals

  • disciplinary literacy
  • text-based analysis
  • writing across genres and formats

Claims

Patterns Used

  • Disciplinary Literacy: units are organised around a driving task prompt in a disciplinary-literacy framework, moving from comprehension and knowledge building to synthesis and writing

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Lenses on Literature. (2013). Lenses on Literature. https://www.literacydesigncollaborative.org
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title Sequenced literacy units organized around a Driving Task Prompt moving through comprehension, knowledge building, genre study, synthesis, and writing
description This pattern organizes curriculum units and modules around a Driving Task Prompt within a disciplinary-literacy framework.
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