S1-08. Evidence-based literacy practice in the classroom: Tim Shanahan
Science of Reading: The Podcast
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The ELA Teacher, You Know, Is Responsible for Literacy
"I don't think most ELA teachers, including me, are really equipped or qualified to teach the literacy that's required in say a math class or in a science class," he says. "We can't expect kids to learn this kind of thing in forty five minutes and we can't expect them to learn it in the ELA class." In Chicago, I mandated two hours a day of reading and writing instruction,. which scared the heck out of my content teachers because they were sure I wouldn't just hire a ton of reading teachers and fire all the content teachers. But what I was really talking about and what we all agreed needed to be done is, you know, kids have to
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