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…

This article is a reflection of English teaching in Chiclayo, Peru, at a not-for-profit cultural center. It starts with a brief explanation of the authors' desire to help transform the community through English teaching. The article then explains the concept of civic education and offers a three-tiered approach that has been designed to help the…

Describes the "Let's Read Together" program designed as a four-week summer reading camp. Concludes that this program, while supplying the children with direct reading instruction, also empowered parents to become more involved and to feel more confident in assisting their children academically. (SC)