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Direct linkBarnes, Erica M.; Oliveira, Alandeom W. – Reading Teacher, 2018
Elementary students are expected to use various features of informational texts to build knowledge in the content areas. In science informational texts, scientific metaphors are commonly used to make sense of complex and invisible processes. Although elementary students may be familiar with literary metaphors as used in narratives, they may be…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Elementary School Science
