emphasis on the development of reading, or establishing teams of
regular classroom teachers and specialist ‘remedial’ teachers to bring
the remedial teaching into the regular classroom). In particular, these
teachers began to understand how some strategies for remedial reading
teaching actually divorced reading skills from the learning contexts
for which they were required; how some strategies preserved and
strengthened the labelling of some students as ‘remedial’ students
rather than helping them to overcome their difficulties; how some
strategies deskilled students by taking them out of the classroom
learning context in which they needed to develop substantive knowledge
and skills and thus maintained their poor performance in classroom
work; and how some strategies denied rather than created conditions
under which teachers could work together to help students develop
needed reading skills across the curriculum.
resources to support students’ independent enquiries) and socially
(students came to have more control over their own classroom
behaviour, and teachers and students began to negotiate the learning
activities of the classroom).