At a workshop I recently facilitated, I had a conversation with an elementary teacher who told me that she didn’t have time to do Project Based Learning in her classroom. This teacher explained that she had to dedicate 45-60 minutes each to science, social studies, reading, and writing in order to meet demands while fitting it all in the school day. She seemed to question how she could manage teaching her literacy content within PBL. Another teacher who taught first grade came up to me the following day and wondered how her students would be able to research and complete a project when half of them couldn’t read or write. In my years of facilitating and coaching PBL teachers, I’ve found these are common questions when it comes marrying literacy and PBL.