Literacy in Science

What does literacy have to do with science? Everything! As students obtain, evaluate, and communicate information throughout courses and grades, literacy is an integral piece. Celebrate literacy with the GaDOE science team and author Jodi Wheeler-Toppen in the following video series. Find tips and strategies to support your science classroom being a space where students read, write, speak, and think. Consider using these resources and table tents​ that are shown in the videos.  

• Integrating Writing and Science: An Introduction for Middle and High School Teachers and Administrators

• Integrating Reading and Science: An Introduction for Middle and High School Teachers and Administrators

• Signal Words for Reading, Writing, and Forming Science Knowledge: For Middle and High School Teachers

• Writing about Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning: For Middle and High School Educators

• Reading Strategies Part 1: Make it Make Sense: For Teachers in Grades K-12

• Reading Strategies Part 2: Problem-Solving Tools

• Knowing Enough to Read: How Background Influences Science Comprehension

• Before and After Writing: Prewriting and Evaluation

• Integrating Reading, Writing, and Science in the K-8 Classroom: A Call to Action for Administrators​