It all comes back to the provocation of the course of, "Should we teach students or subjects?" If a teacher is able to improve a student's ability to learn, there will be a greater amount of the subject itself getting learnt. So of course teaching literacy isn't just a distraction from core disciplinary business, but enhances our ability to teach the content effectively, and reach the student.
For me, literacy has always been an issue. I rarely read books in highschool as it was too much of a struggle and wasn't worth the angst for me! Only when I found things that I was really interested in, that presented answers to questions I had, did I begin to not see reading as a chore. Since then, I've often felt the need for extra strategies to help my reading skills, since I am slow, and I often do struggle to think about what I'm reading if it doesn't jump at me as interesting.
I'm looking forward to examining new strategies and ideas about literacy that will shake up my own literacy and my ability to help with that of my future students.
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