Visual Literacy in Science

Journal Article | June 2010

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

Journal Article | October 2010

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…

Editor’s Note: Literacy Skills

Journal Article | October 2008

Our science and literacy issue is always one of the most popular issues of the year, and we’re betting this jam-packed issue will be no exception. Why? There are many probable reasons. Many elementary teachers are more…

Science and Literacy: Tools for Life

Journal Article | January 2010

This article describes three interconnected strategies to help form the structure of support that you and your students can use to reach both goals simultaneously: performance expectations for students, explicit…

Information Literacy in Introductory Biology

Journal Article | April 2006

Incorporating information literacy exercises into the science curriculum will help students to navigate through the myriad of information available in different formats, and to become better scientific thinkers and…

Putting Science Literacy on Display

Journal Article | October 2012

A museum setting incorporates language arts into science lessons. This article describes how a class turned its library into a museum by displaying student projects that were generated from an air and weather unit.

Environmental Literacy for All Students

Journal Article | April 2003

Evaluation of environmental science courses developed for a new core curriculum.