[LIT] "... Addressing Middle Level Literacy"

[ckingsbery at aol.com]

I agree with your approach. It fits with the WESTED Reader's Apprenticeship program that supports the idea that content teachers are the experts of their subject matter and expert readers in their content and can give thier students the skills needed to be expert content readers. The key for me is to have those teachers make their thinkning and strategies explicit to thier students.
Chris 
 
 
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From: skosmoski at aol.com
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Sent: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [LIT] "... Addressing Middle Level Literacy"


Bill, and all--
this kind of dscussion always intrigues and scares me a bit. As a 
reading teacher, I am wary of the "everyone teaches reading syndrome" 
for a few reasons. First of all content teachers immediately get upset. 
They don't want to teach reading--they will be the first to tell you 
they don't know how and that scares them. All kinds of walls go up.

The way i approach it with them is that each subject has a language of 
its own and that I can help them with strategies that will help their 
kids learn the language of science or social studies or math. They are 
even usually wiling to look at text structure and organization and will 
admit that teaching science is teaching cause and effect, and teaching 
social studies is teaching main idea--supporting details and 
chronological order.
Mary Anne
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