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Shanahan on Literacy

My Problem with Teaching Text Organization

Teaching kids to identify text structure is a really good idea. However, focusing those efforts on how the content is structured will usually be more beneficial than on the common rhetorical structures.

Vera Ahiyya

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Vera Ahiyya

Children’s book author

Vera Ahiyya is a kindergarten and first grade teacher, children’s book author, and advocate for diverse books and voices in the classroom. 

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Learning to Read Around the World: Greece

Launa Hall’s travels take her to Crete, Greece, where she discovers the impact that the island’s deep tradition of writing and performing poetry has on developing readers.

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