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  • Absorbing Visual Literacy

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    Using diaper advertisements to create product testers

  • The Science and Literacy Framework

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    Carefully selected trade books can introduce science concepts, develop background knowledge, reinforce hands-on lessons, support science-process skills, and at the same time enhance related literacy-process skills. They…

  • A Place for Content Literacy

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    To help students learn and apply science content, teachers can embed content literacy instruction within science instruction. This involves teaching the content and the literacy skills students need to learn that…

  • Policy, Literacy, and Energy

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    A yearlong project to engage physics students with national energy policy.

  • Scientific Literacy for All

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    All students, including English language learners (ELLs), benefit from a curriculum that emphasizes the teaching of concepts in depth and focuses on process and critical thinking skills. Often, simply using the inquiry-…

  • Writing and Science Literacy

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    Students' science literacy can be assessed and enhanced by using writing activities in the science classroom. Students can use technical writing to communicate their lab experiences and creative writing to make…

  • Visual Literacy in Science

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    While diagrams make the text more visually appealing and provide an image of the text, they also do much more. Subsequently, the authors designed a series of lessons for students to discover the many purposes of…

  • Nonfiction Literacy in Kindergarten

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    After an outdoor excursion hunting for a “special leaf” on a delightful fall day, students returned to the classroom and were instructed to capture the leaf on a blank page in their science notebooks. They were asked to…

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