Integrating Compehensive Instruction Across Content Areas
In an article from Alliance for Excellent Education (2006), the authors argue that content-area teachers need not become reading and writing teachers, but that they should focus and reinforce reading and writing practices relevant to their subjects. In this way, their students learn to read and write like historians, scientists, and other content-area experts.
[Alliance for Excellent Education, Reading and writing in the academic content areas, June 2006 Issue Brief] http://www.all4ed.org/publications/ReadingWritingAcadContent.pdf
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A. Summarizing