Make disciplinary thinking visible through its language.
Science explains mechanisms; maths justifies relationships; history qualifies interpretations using sources. A connective is useful only when it expresses the intended reasoning.
Choose an authentic subject task and identify the language that makes expert thinking visible.
Name the disciplinary thinking: explain, justify, interpret or evaluate.
Show a short successful response.
Discuss how language expresses the subject relationship.
Apply the same move to new subject evidence.
Move from labelled models to independent choices appropriate to the question.
Keep the subject challenge. Offer one model, visual or language prompt where needed, then check a fresh independent response.
Choose an authentic subject task and identify the language that makes expert thinking visible.
Name the disciplinary thinking: explain, justify, interpret or evaluate. Show a short successful response.
Ask learners to explain why a language choice fits the task.
Move from labelled models to independent choices appropriate to the question.
Ask learners to explain why a language choice fits the task.
Adapt these prompts to the task and your learners.
Our purpose is: Make disciplinary thinking visible through its language.
Which detail supports your explanation? Show me how you know.
Try the new case on your own. Show the detail or reasoning that supports your answer.
Which support do you still need, and which part can you now do independently?
Maths: justify why a rule holds, not only state the answer.
Humanities: qualify a claim when the available evidence has limits.
Use a small word bank, visuals and partner rehearsal when needed. Extend with precise explanations and qualifications. Judge the support from the response to this task.
Keep the strategy. Change the subject.
Name the language of mechanism in a science explanation.
The rod expands because its particles vibrate more strongly and their average separation increases.
Ask which language choice expresses the disciplinary relationship and why it fits the task.
Name qualification in historical source interpretation.
The letter suggests how one writer experienced the event; it cannot establish every person’s experience.
Ask which language choice expresses the disciplinary relationship and why it fits the task.
Name the link from language choice to interpretation.
Repetition emphasises the isolation, although its effect depends on the surrounding passage.
Ask which language choice expresses the disciplinary relationship and why it fits the task.
Name justification in a mathematical claim.
The relationship is directly proportional because it has the form y = kx with a constant ratio.
Ask which language choice expresses the disciplinary relationship and why it fits the task.