What Do Scientists Do?  80% of their time is devoted to reading and writing!

Personal Reflection Using your handout, take a moment to reflect on: 1.What is literacy? Being Literate? 2.What is scientific literacy?

What is Literacy? Being Literate? Defined as The ability to read and write. 2. Being educated or learned.

Content Area Literacy Defined as... The level of reading, writing, and speaking skills necessary to read, comprehend, and respond to appropriate instructional materials in a given subject area.

Research Connection Between Science and Literacy  Language is essential for effective science learning: Supports our ability to think about a concept, to describe it, have discussions about it, and argue for or against it. Students make meaning by writing, talking, and reading about science, especially when accompanied by direct investigation of the science concept. The ability to use language to form ideas, theorize, reflect, share, debate, and clearly communicate strengthens our students acquisition of science concepts and processes.

Comparison of Skills

Writing Skills and Science

Strategies in Science  Reading Anticipation Guides  LINCS Vocabulary Organizer  Use of Videos for background knowledge  Student as teacher  Notes Foldable with practice  Jig-Saw  Quick Writes  Interactive Notebooks

Strategies in Science Use your handout to record ideas for how to use the strategies presented. We will share these at the end of this session.

Literacy Strategies Reading- Anticipation Guide  Identify major concepts you want students to learn from text  Create four to six statements that support or challenge students’ beliefs about the topic  Share guide with students and ask them to be prepared to defend their opinions  Have students read to find evidence to support or disconfirm responses  After reading, students will confirm or revise their responses

Literacy Strategies Reading-Vocabulary -example of background knowledge.

Literacy Strategies Using Videos-Speaking-Discussion national-geographic-100-years-vol-004-among-the-wild- chimpanzees-2004_schoolhttp:// national-geographic-100-years-vol-004-among-the-wild- chimpanzees-2004_school (25:43)  Example of chimpanzee video to pull common background knowledge and enable discussion of content.

Literacy Strategies Using Videos-Speaking-Discussion  Think pair share before class discussion.  Card sort activity to determine learned and Innate Behaviors

Literacy Strategies Using Videos-Speaking-Discussion

Literacy Strategies Speaking- Reciprocal teaching- Energy labs. Day 1-Students are put into groups of 4 and become experts at one station. Day 2-2 students stay at their station, the other 2 rotate through the stations. The students staying behind are the experts and give instructions to the groups rotating through the stations. Day 3-students switch places and the students that rotated are now the experts at the station. The students that were the experts are now the ones rotating through the stations.

Speaking- Reciprocal Teaching

Research Connection Between Science and Literacy Language is essential for effective science learning: Supports our ability to think about a concept, to describe it, have discussions about it, and argue for or against it. Students make meaning by writing, talking, and reading about science, especially when accompanied by direct investigation of the science concept. The ability to use language to form ideas, theorize, reflect, share, debate, and clearly communicate strengthens our students acquisition of science concepts and processes.

Literacy Strategies Reading/Writing-Notes in foldable example of Newton’s 3 Laws with lab to practice content.

Literacy Strategies Reading/Writing- Jig-Saw- Energy Posters. Students receive instructions and complete a poster on a type of energy. Then students go around and look at posters and fill in the information on their handout.

Research Connection Between Science and Literacy Language is essential for effective science learning: Supports our ability to think about a concept, to describe it, have discussions about it, and argue for or against it. Students make meaning by writing, talking, and reading about science, especially when accompanied by direct investigation of the science concept. The ability to use language to form ideas, theorize, reflect, share, debate, and clearly communicate strengthens our students acquisition of science concepts and processes.

Literacy Strategies Writing- Quick writes -in journal, exit slips

Quick Writes Ideas After the Lesson/Reading  Dear Diary: Students assume the role of an historic figure who was involved in the lesson and write an entry as if they were that individual  Read All Instructions Before Operating: Students write instructions for how to solve a problem or perform a skill they have just learned  The Last Word: Students spend the last ten minutes of class writing you a letter about something they do not understand  And The Winner Is.. : Students write letters to the publisher of the textbook identifying the content included in this chapter that had the greatest impact on their lives

Literacy Strategy Interactive Notebook The purpose of the interactive notebook is to enable students to be creative, independent thinkers and writers. Interactive notebooks are used for class notes as well as for other activities where the student will be asked to express his/her own ideas and process the information presented in class. Requirements vary from teacher to teacher and is set up according to the directions of the teacher.

Reflection Look at your handout to answer this question. At your table share one strategy that you plan to use and how you plan to use it.