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 ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
