Children's Ways with Science and Literacy: Integrated Multimodal Enactments in U

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This book offers specific examples and empirical evidence of how multimodal integrated science-literacy curriculum and teaching in urban primary-grade classrooms give students opportunities to learn science and to develop positive images of themselves as scientists.

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Science is often a forgotten subject in early elementary grades as various mandates require teachers to focus on teaching young students to achieve specific reading and mathematical competencies. This book offers specific examples and empirical evidence of how integrated science-literacy curriculum and teaching in urban primary-grade classrooms give students opportunities to learn science and to develop positive images of themselves as scientists. The Integrated Science-Literacy Enactments (ISLE) approach builds on multimodal, multidimensional, and dialogically oriented teaching and learning principles. Readers see how, as children engage with texts, material objects, dialogue, ideas, and symbols in their classroom community, they are helped to bridge their own understandings and ways with words and images with those of science. In doing so, they become learners of both science and literacy. The book features both researcher and teacher perspectives. It explores science learning and its intersection with literacy development in schools that educate predominately children of color, many of whom struggle with poverty and have been traditionally underestimated, underserved, and underrated in science classrooms. In all these ways, this volume is a significant contribution to a critically under-researched area of science education.

Author Biography

Maria Varelas is Professor of Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Chicago.Christine C. Pappas is Professor Emerita of Literacy and Language Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Table of Contents

PrefaceSECTION I1. Integrating Science and Literacy: Forms and FunctionsSECTION II2. Read-Alouds of Children's Literature Information Books: Dialogic Sharing and Intertextuality3. Children's Language Acts: Diverse Forms of Classroom Participation in Read-Alouds4. Hands-On explorations that Nurture Scientific Practices: Linking Doing with Thinking and Talking5. Book Writing and Illustrating: Ways with Text and Pictures 6. Dramatizing as a Tool for Thinking and Speech7. Scientific Practices in Home Projects: Exploring at Home, Sharing at SchoolSECTION III8. Learning Together Over Time: Young Children Making Meaning9. Children's Conceptions of Being ScientistsSECTION IV10. Young Children in Urban Classrooms: Possibilities for Sciencing

Review

"This work is particularly notable because it provides concrete examples of how to deliver high quality science content in an elementary classroom along with classroom artifacts of the ISLE curriculum generated by elementary school age learners in urban school settings. The authors provide a sound research basis for the effectiveness of these instructional methodologies thus making this text an appropriate resource for university level science education faculty engaged in preparing pre-service teachers for teaching science in the primary grades, literacy faculty working with pre-service teachers, and practicing teachers who have a desire to hone their skills in developing and delivering cross-curricular units in science and literacy. ... an excellent resource for engaging in study that addresses equity issues that abound in our nation's schools." —Teachers College Record

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"This work is particularly notable because it provides concrete examples of how to deliver high quality science content in an elementary classroom along with classroom artifacts of the ISLE curriculum generated by elementary school age learners in urban school settings. The authors provide a sound research basis for the effectiveness of these instructional methodologies thus making this text an appropriate resource for university level science education faculty engaged in preparing pre-service teachers for teaching science in the primary grades, literacy faculty working with pre-service teachers, and practicing teachers who have a desire to hone their skills in developing and delivering cross-curricular units in science and literacy. ... an excellent resource for engaging in study that addresses equity issues that abound in our nation's schools." --Teachers College Record

Details ISBN0415897858 Language English ISBN-10 0415897858 ISBN-13 9780415897853 Media Book Format Paperback Short Title CHILDRENS WAYS W/SCIENCE & LIT DEWEY 372.350 Year 2012 Author Christine C. Pappas Illustrations Yes Imprint Routledge Subtitle Integrated Multimodal Enactments in Urban Elementary Classrooms Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Christine C. Pappas Affiliation University of Illinois at Chicago (Emerita), USA AU Release Date 2012-11-19 NZ Release Date 2012-11-19 UK Release Date 2012-11-19 Pages 228 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2012-11-19 Alternative 9780415897846 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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