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title: Teachers Must Know How Students Learn to Read
description: NEWS:Senior Manager of Humanities Keena Day shares why the science of reading is so important
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# [Teachers Must Know How Students Learn to Read](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/teachers-must-know-how-students-learn-to-read)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 03/12/21

Starting out as a student teacher in Metro Nashville Public Schools in 2003, I was trained in college to acquire my secondary ELA licensure and taught both 7th and 9th grades. During that training, I was given resources and strategies for teaching literature; however, during that student teaching experience, I recognized very quickly that many of my students were not equipped with basic reading skills to be able to not only read the texts I wanted to teach, but perhaps could impact them for the rest of their adult lives.

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