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My work with student teachers is grounded in eight years of classroom teaching, primarily in grades one-four in elementary schools in rural Alberta, Canada. My Bachelor of Education (BEd) degree in elementary education at the University of Alberta included two 39-hour courses in literacy; one in reading and the other in writing.
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Peterson, S.S. (2013). Literacy Teacher Education to Support Children’s Multi-Modal and Print-Based Literacies. In: Kosnik, C., Rowsell, J., Williamson, P., Simon, R., Beck, C. (eds) Literacy Teacher Educators. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-200-6_8
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