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Peer reviewedMartin, Kathleen; Miller, Etta – Language Arts, 1988
Argues that the nature of science texts adopted in most schools is unscientific, static, linear, and nonparticipatory and offers children no connections between forms and forces, between observers and observed. Claims that through storytelling scientific knowledge can be kept alive for children. (NH)
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Instructional Materials, Primary Education, Science Curriculum
Peer reviewedWoolsey, Daniel P.; Burton, Frederick R. – Language Arts, 1986
Reports on participant-observation in a third- and fourth-grade classroom in which students learned to read science texts with both "efferent" and "aesthetic" reading processes. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
