Science Practice #4

Ambitious Science Teaching provides strategies for teachers when they are incorporating more disciplinary writing into science learning.

This tool offers teachers a set of research-driven questions to guide them when assigning students to write evidence-based explanations.

In this article from Science Teacher, author Mark McDermott provides strategies and suggestions for writing to learn in science.

This STEM Teaching Tools brief advocates for using talk to support writing in science. The template simultaneously guides students when organizing their thinking and provides teachers with formative assessment data.

This site includes resources and videos on how to write evidence-based arguments as well as a culture of argumentation in the classroom.

This site provides resources and videos for embedding literacy strategies into science.

This STEM Teaching Tool provides teachers with strategies for scaffolding the development of a claim, evidence, and reasoning to support a written argument for an investigation.

Being able to read, interpret, and produce scientific and technical text are fundamental practices of science and engineering, as is the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively.  Appendix F helps paint a picture for teachers about the extent to which students should obtain, evaluate, and communicate information when doing science.