ERIC Number: EJ758630
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Feb
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Literacy in Science: A Natural Fit
Creech, Janet; Hale, Gina
Science Teacher, v73 n2 p22-27 Feb 2006
Reading is an essential part of science literacy, yet teachers often face challenges in incorporating reading in science classrooms. In this article, the authors share how they brought reading back into their science classrooms. They designed four quarterly reading projects with yearlong literacy routines that they used successfully with their ninth-grade students, including English language learners. These projects were based on Reading Apprenticeship, an instructional framework offered by the Strategic Literacy Initiative to support middle and high school student literacy in content areas. Reading Apprenticeship encourages reading in classrooms as an active problem-solving process. Students and teachers engage in a shared inquiry into literacy by taking mental risks as they read together and discuss their reading processes, confusions, and methods of resolution. Creating a classroom climate that supports inquiry is essential to both science and literacy learning. This connection to inquiry made the Reading Apprenticeship approach a natural fit in science classrooms. (Contains 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Skills, Reading Assignments, Middle School Students, High School Students, Problem Solving, Inquiry, Classroom Environment, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Scientific Literacy, Reading Processes, Apprenticeships, Content Area Reading, Reading Improvement, Grade 9, Secondary School Science
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Grade 9; High Schools; Middle Schools
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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