2. Stephen Pruitt Georgia Department of Education Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

3. Science and Reading

4. Fish Is Fish

7. What is Science, really? Science is a way of knowing, not a way of memorizing. Science is the act of learning about the world around us through research and experience. Science is the accumulation of knowledge and assembling that knowledge to explain the world.

8. Science and Reading?

9. Strategies that have a strong effect on student achievement Identifying similarities and differences Summarizing and note taking Reinforcing effort and providing recognition Nonlinguistic representations Cooperative learning Generating and testing hypotheses Questions, cues, and advance organizers Marzano, Classroom Instruction That Works, 2001

11. Reading Science Engages Prior Knowledge About A Child’s World Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

12. Use Knowledge Meaningfully Extend and Refine Knowledge Acquire and Integrate Knowledge Habits of Mind Attitudes and Perceptions Dimensions of Learning

14. Reading Science Gives A Child A Basis of Conceptual Understanding Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

16. Test Answers You Hope You Never See. When you breath, you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire. When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide. Nitrogen is not found in Ireland because it is not stable in free state. Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin, Hydrogin is gin and water. H 2 O is hot water, CO 2 is cold water. The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects. Blood flows down one leg and up the other.

17. Reading Science In Elementary School Leads To Reading and Scientific Literacy Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

18. Science Reading Is Necessary to Science Understanding The interactive-constructive model of science reading recognizes the importance of prior knowledge, strategies, metacognition (awareness and executive control of meaning making), and sociocultural context.

20. Reading Science Allows Students To Develop Skills For Critical Reading And Reasoning Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

21. Engagement The science facts we have today will not be the same science facts we have tomorrow.

22. Pluto, poor Pluto.

23. Reading Science Develops Skills for Inferring Meaning and Drawing Conclusions Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

25. Reading Science Improves Vocabulary Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

26. Contextualized Vocabulary

27. Reading Science Improves Comprehension Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

28. Science and Comprehension Explicit instruction on science reading strategies improves metacognitive awareness, reading comprehension, and science achievement (Holder, 1996; Spence, 1994).

29. Good Readers Are Good Scientists in the Making Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

30. Science Reading Reading is not simply a unidimensional bottom- up or top-down process involving printed symbols. Rather, reading is an interactive- constructive process that involves making meaning by negotiating understanding between the text and the reader's concurrent experiences and memories of the topic within a sociocultural context (Yore & Shymansky, 1991).

31. Reading Science Models Scientific Processes and Thought Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction

32. Scientific Processes We are not discussing the Scientific Method!

33. Science Books Are Fun and Motivating to Students BECAUSE I SAID SO!!! Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction