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How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas?
Teachers need a course in advanced literacy because every single teacher is responsible for teaching Literacy in their classrooms, no matter what content area. Rebecca Alber, writes that literacy is an every-century skill (Alber 2011).
She quotes: "Adolescents entering the adult world in the …show more content…
Without reaching the different skills of literacy, students won’t be able to complete jobs out in the real world or be an effective citizen. Teachers are teaching a lifelong skill that is so important for students to know when they move on through the different grades in their education.
Source:
Alber, R. (2010, August 04). How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content
Areas? Retrieved February 01, 2017, from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/literacy-instruction-across-curriculum-importance
Is Every Teacher a Literacy Teacher?
If students from an early age learn to effectively read/ write and know how to learn from reading and writing, then they will excel so much more in their content classes later on in education, according to Dr. William Heller (2012). If students aren’t learning the literacy skills they need to learn, then it will affect their education later on because they won’t have skills like fluency and comprehension with literacy.
Source:
Heller, W. (2012, May 05). Is Every Teacher a Literacy Teacher?: Reading and Writing in the
Content Areas. Retrieved February 01, 2017, from