In today's diverse and global world, the importance of disciplinary literacy is rapidly increasing. Thus, elementary educators must consider ways to incorporate disciplinary literacy into their instruction. Elementary educators often implement the transactional theory of reading to enhance comprehension and evoke aesthetic responses to fiction literature. This theory is rarely applied to the expository texts of the disciplines. This article explores disciplinary literacy strategies as helpful tools to support transactions between the reader and the text to enhance comprehension and develop the specialized literacy demands determined by the discipline of history in the elementary social studies classroom.