The new science literacy : using language skills to help students learn science /

Thier, Marlene,

The new science literacy : using language skills to help students learn science / [print] Marlene Thier with Bennett Daviss ; foreword by Harold Pratt. - Portsmouth, New Hampshire : Heinemann, (c)2002. - xxi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.



Merging science and language -- Activities that merge language and science -- Tools for the new science literacy, performance expectations : performance expectations, student metacognition strategies, and strategies for explicit teaching -- Reading, paths to better comprehension -- Writing, paths to clear expression -- Speaking and listening, paths to clear understanding -- Media literacy, paths to awareness -- If you teach from a textbook -- Fusing science and literacy, practical steps to implementation -- Making parents a vital part of the new science literacy -- Building bridges to literacy in your science program.



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Science--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.
Science--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
Language arts (Elementary)--United States.
Language arts (Secondary)--United States.
Language arts--Correlation with content subjects--United States.

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