Stephen PruittGeorgia Department of Education
Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books
During Reading Instruction
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.
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
Reading Science Engages Prior Knowledge About A
Child’s World
Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books
During Reading Instruction
Use Knowledge Meaningfully
Extend andRefine Knowledge
Acquire andIntegrate
Knowledge
Habits of Mind
Attitudes and Perceptions
Dimensions of Learning
Reading Science Gives A Child A Basis of Conceptual
Understanding
Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction
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.
H2O is hot water, CO2 is cold water. The pistol of a flower is its only protection
against insects. Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
Reading Science In Elementary School Leads To
Reading and Scientific Literacy
Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction
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.
Reading Science Allows Students To Develop Skills For
Critical Reading And Reasoning
Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction
Reading Science Develops Skills for Inferring Meaning and Drawing Conclusions
Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction
Reading Science Improves Comprehension
Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction
Science and Comprehension
Explicit instruction on science reading strategies improves metacognitive awareness, reading comprehension, and science achievement (Holder, 1996; Spence, 1994).
Good Readers Are Good Scientists in the Making
Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction
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).
Reading Science Models Scientific Processes and
Thought
Top Ten Reasons to Use Science Books During Reading Instruction