Reading and writing are central to the conception of science and the work of scientists. While recent scholarship on science literacy suggests the benefits of integrating reading and writing in science teaching, less is known about the extent to which science teachers implement such integration. This naturalistic study examines two sixth-grade…

Describes a program used in three Texas schools in which kindergarten children spend a part of each day writing. (FL)

Provides parallel and flexible reading/writing strategies designed to help college students with the challenge of simultaneously succeeding in a variety of subject areas in which their experience is limited. (FL)

Offers five classroom activities, some teacher centered and some child centered, that develop reading and writing in five-year-old children. (FL)

Describes the progression of activities used in an astronomy unit that involved writing to learn and think. (FL)

Discusses four principles derived from theory and practice that make incorporating writing into any class easy and worthwhile: (1) creating audience awareness, (2) making writing tasks consequential, (3) varying writing assignments, and (4) using writing to help students integrate new material into what they already. (FL)

Most discussions of literacy involve at least two types: low literacy (involving knowledge and use of the strategies and conventions important to reading, writing, and vocabulary development) and high literacy (including these competencies along with a number of thinking and reasoning strategies that augment and deepen these abilities). Turning…

Describes some of the components of the West German approach to beginning reading and writing instruction. (FL)

Noting that writing should be part of the instructional/learning strategies used in every classroom across the curriculum at all grade levels, this guide presents activities for using various kinds of writing in the content areas. The guide presents the activities according to the following writing types: (1) journal writing, (2) letter writing,…

Explains how word processing can make it easy for students to adapt and improve text until they are happy with the results. Offers an example of word processing in action. (FL)

Written by teachers for teachers, this book on language in the classroom is concerned with the various ways children are taught and the various ways they learn in response to that teaching. Chapter 1 analyzes the prewriting discussion of a group of 16 year olds to provide a model of language in use, and suggests four factors affecting the quality…