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Reading like a Scientist from Strategic Education Research Partnership
ASCD's articles on disciplinary literacy in science and Supporting Reading in Science and then check this out for ways to apply these concepts to the classroom.
Expeditionary Learning's unit for 5th graders on reading and writing like a scientist
Edutopia's article on teaching students to think like a scientist
Project READi looks at argumentation in the sciences
WestEd's webinar on literacy for the science classroom
A video about thinking like a scientist -- provocative, colloquial, practical.
How about writing? Writing Like a Scientist and Writing Arguments in Science
How to Read a Scientific Paper from Rice University.
In Ferlazzo's interview with the authors of Learning that Lasts, you'll find a video that shows a science teacher supporting middle school students to read like scientists.
Below in the file sections, you'll find an article by Peter Dohrenwend from American School in Japan (ASIJ). Peter writes about how he verbally annotated text in order to support students as scientists.
Also below you'll find a document that describes what the thinking strategies look like for scientists.
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