My Students Read Like Scientists. Now Yours Can, Too!
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Romesa Davis
Kadir Demir
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Journal Article, Professional Journal
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While hands-on activities are important in science, students must have the opportunity to process the ideas and information that stem from those activities. Minds-on science activities, such as literacy integration, support making connections between prior and new knowledge by encouraging students to read, speak, and write like scientists. Literacy integration in science has been widely studied, but effective literacy integration remains elusive. In response, this article addresses ways that a teacher can use a combination of text genres (the traditional science textbook, popular science articles, and Adapted Primary Literature) to scaffold the understanding of scientific practices while using minds-on activities. Teachers will gain a sense of what literacy integration entails, see a concrete plan for integration literacy in the science classroom, and find the resources they need to accomplish this goal.