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Amy Benjamin on Literacy in the Content Areas

Long before the Common Core State Standards crossed the threshold of our schools, Amy Benjamin had been a champion of literacy in the content areas. A veteran teacher who currently leads workshops for teachers across the country, Amy reminds us that literacy instruction is everybody’s business. She provides practical strategies to help students learn, process, connect, and remember.
 
This podcast was originally aired on January 31, 2012 and the runtime is 10:52.

Select podcast highlights include:

1:40: Many content teachers teach “around” literacy instead of “through” it.

3:15: How has the term literacy changed in recent years?

3:56: Writing is arguably the most effective and powerful way to learn, remember, and retrieve and connect to other knowledge in the brain.

5:42: The goal of professional development in the Common Core is to have teachers acknowledge what they already do and then sharpen it.

7:25: Example of a Social Studies “Do Now” literacy activity.

9:50: Amy Benjamin has worked in 37 states with over ten thousand teachers and is an avid player of “Words with Friends.”