Diane Lapp Knihy

It is essential that students learn to examine, review, and evaluate knowledge and ideas through a process of scientific investigation and argumentation. Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting understanding of science, its concepts, and its place in their lives and the global community. Chapter 1: Empowering Students to Learn Scientific PracticesChapter 2: Learning to Talk Like a ScientistChapter 3: Learning to Write Like a ScientistChapter 4: Learning to Read Like a ScientistChapter 5: Empowering Students to Think Like Scientists

Tests, teacher's editions, parent-child actives, workbooks, reteaching, comprehension, vocabulary, challenge, skill practice, teaching charts, transparencies.

The way schools engage with literacy skills leaves an enormous gap between what students are confident in, and what real life will expect from them. Lapp, Grant, and Thayre want to eliminate this learning curve by expanding the narrow range of communication skills we empower students to become experts in. Using what you know about teaching language selection, tone, voice, audience, organization, and style, this guide will help you to broaden your students exposure and deepen their insights through sample lessons, rubrics, outlines, and activities for every grade level.

In this comprehensive guide, the authors explore the relationship between text, learner, and learning through discussion and rhetorical writing at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.