[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 6 | February 9, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Terry Heick says, “Perhaps more than anything else, the English Language Arts classroom is a place of diversity.

There is diversity of academic expectations for teachers. The ELA Common Core assigns literature and informational reading, writing, speaking/listening and language to what is usually a single “class.” This is a total of five extremely broad topics, each of which could more than stand on its own as a content area.

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