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

[skosmoski at aol.com]

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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