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Modeling, Reading, and Talking, Oh My!: Using Multiple Modes to Promote Sensemaking and Scientific Literacy in the Early Elementary Grades
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Fitzgerald, Miranda S.; Bismack, Amber S.; Gotwals, Amelia Wenk; Wright, Tanya S.; Washburn, Erin K. – Science and Children, 2022
An important part of promoting scientific literacy is developing disciplinary literacy practices, such as obtaining information from text and sharing investigation results through talk and writing. To support students to develop disciplinary literacy practices in science, educators must provide opportunities for them to work with multiple…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Windows into Thinking: Scaffolding Scientific Explanations Helps Overcome Barriers to Writing
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Fleming, Kenneth; Esparza, Allison; Irby, Beverly; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Tong, Fuhui; Guerrero, Cindy – Science and Children, 2022
This article is organized around describing a pair of resources developed to support student and teacher use of the instructional model Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) in the classroom and incorporate writing as a meaningful part of their science instruction. Project LISTO developed and put the Scaffolding Scientific Explanations (SSE)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evidence, Science Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)