Policy, Literacy, and Energy

Journal Article | February 2015

A yearlong project to engage physics students with national energy policy.

Scientific Literacy for All

Journal Article | February 2000

All students, including English language learners (ELLs), benefit from a curriculum that emphasizes the teaching of concepts in depth and focuses on process and critical thinking skills. Often, simply using the inquiry-…

Writing and Science Literacy

Journal Article | December 2011

Students' science literacy can be assessed and enhanced by using writing activities in the science classroom. Students can use technical writing to communicate their lab experiences and creative writing to make…

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…

Learning Science and Literacy Together

Journal Article | October 2018

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…