Schedule reading after experimentation so students read with a genuine need to know¶

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Description¶

The guide places text reading (Lesson 7) after students have run experiments and encountered disagreements in their findings, so that "When students have different results in their experiments, they will be motivated to read because they have a genuine 'need to know.'" Teachers provide age-appropriate materials such as short online articles, trade books, or textbook excerpts; students collect unfamiliar vocabulary into a growing word list, write definitions in their own words (emergent multilinguals may use their language of choice), and use the reading to settle disagreements.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Prior student experiments producing results or disagreements that create genuine motivation to read

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Elementary students, including emergent multilinguals

Target Learning Goals¶

• Reading comprehension of science texts
• Vocabulary acquisition
• Settling scientific disagreements with evidence

Affordances¶

• Four Key Components Literacy Science Integration

Related Strategies¶

• Leveled Text Reading

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Practitioner's guide to integrating literacy and science. (2025). HMH Education Company / NWEA. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/practitioners-guide-to-integrating-literacy-and-science/