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The Explicit Literacy Instruction Embedded in Middle School Science Classrooms project was initiated in the spring of 2005 at the request of a small group of teachers from two middle schools in a Victoria, British Columbia (BC), school district that had French immersion and English programs of instruction in Grades 6, 7, and 8. A third middle school joined the project later. Part of the motivation was that the school district was implementing the new K–7 and Grade 8 provincial science curricula (BC Ministry of Education [MoE], 2005, 2006) and the schools’ had recently selected and purchased textbooks.
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Tippett, C.D., Anthony, R.J. (2011). Explicit Literacy Instruction Embedded in Middle School Science Classrooms. In: Yore, L.D., Flier-Keller, E.V.d., Blades, D.W., Pelton, T.W., Zandvliet, D.B. (eds) Pacific CRYSTAL Centre for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Literacy: Lessons Learned. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-506-2_8
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