I was recently reading the July-August 2025 issue of "The Science Teacher", a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.

In this issue, I read the section, "Editor's Corner" written by Brooke A Whitworth. She wrote an article entitled, "Developing Disciplinary Literacy."

We can think of disciplinary literacy in two ways, when it comes to science:

1. Broadly, in terms of how science compares to other content areas.

2. Specifically, in terms of how the subdiscipline of chemistry differs from biology or physics or earth science.