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Ed Weekly discussed the focus on teaching reading and writing in the content areas.
"...Schools, districts, and states are increasingly shaping what happens in science and social studies classes around the Common Core State Standards for literacy in history, social studies, science, and technical subjects. These lesser-known standards, tucked in the back of the English/language arts section of the common core, aim to teach students to read, write, and analyze text like a historian, a scientist, or some other disciplinary expert.
"We're asking all teachers to be teachers of reading and writing in their disciplines," said Bridgett Bird, the senior manager of content literacy for the 90,000-student Denver public school system and the head of the group that developed the chemistry lessons and other discipline-based literacy lessons. "Literacy is the key to equity. If we're only focused on literacy in [English/language arts], we're leaving out seven-eighths of the day."
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