Building Scientific Ideas with Interactive Read-Alouds

Jan 30, 2024

This video focuses on how interactive read-alouds, a common practice in elementary schools, can be geared toward supporting scientific sense-making. See how students are invited to reason about specific pieces of content and ask questions of informational texts.

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Equity

Inviting students to interact with and thoughtfully question or critique information in texts can help them see themselves as active participants in scientific sense-making, rather than gatherers of known facts.

Research

Consider additional ways to integrate science and literacy in the early grades: Wright, T. S., & Gotwals, A. W. (2023). Supporting integrated instruction in science and literacy in K-2 classrooms. In S. Q. Cabell, S. B. Neuman, & N. P. Terry (Eds.), Handbook on the science of early literacy (pp. 162-174). Guilford Publications.

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