ABSTRACT
Having students research to learn in a content area can turn into an endless game of Googling/Wikipedia-ing. Students can brainstorm their own questions and find their own resources but to really get at discipline-specific literacy, specific questions can be planted to ensure that students are reading like historians, geographers, politicans, scientists, artists, mathematicians and authors. This chapter provides a list of such questions to ensure discipline-specific literacy is happening during the strategy of multiple-text comparing with an I-Chart. Part of addressing discipline-specific literacy is placing learning and discussion into authentic contexts. The original strategy of Mantle of the Expert had all students read the same text and then brainstorm a list of “experts” that might have an opinion about a central topic or question. Different students take on the “mantle” of one of the experts and the audience (the rest of the students) pose questions to the experts. This strategy is a blast and is used with great success.
