American Business English/ESL: The Fundamentals Jennifer Adams, superintendent of curriculum at the public board, said staff and administrators have worked on the concept of cross-curricular literacy skills at the primary, junior, intermediate and secondary levels and it’s the impact of those efforts that is being seen in the board’s literacy test results. “The job of teaching literacy is no longer left to the English teacher. It’s very much a full-team approach at the school level,” she said. Special needs students in both local English-language boards had success rates that surpassed the provincial average. However, English as a Second Language students in the Catholic board had a 32% success rate, which falls short of the provincial average of 39%. The public board had a 40% success rate.

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