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Article: A California State University initiative to improve adolescent reading in all content areas.
- Article from:
- Teacher Education Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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In Single Subject preservice programs across the nation, literacy professors are coping with the demands of preparing their candidates to teach reading and writing across the content areas. The professors are challenged to establish a credible rationale for why teachers in content areas such as physical education, art, and music should be required to take a course in content literacy. And, while many candidates wonder why they must take a course in reading, many professors wonder how that course can be optimally structured to adequately teach a vast array of literacy-related processes and content literacy methods. Thus, professors must make a series of curricular ...