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Chung, Mi-Hyun; Keckler, Barbara – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2016
This paper will explain what a reading teacher learned from working with a group of first-grade struggling readers in a series of shared-book experience classes. The shared-book experience approach used a variety of science-themed books that were aligned with the first-grade curriculum and appropriate for beginning readers. Considering the…
Descriptors: Books, Scientific Literacy, Reading Difficulties, Reading Teachers
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Oliveira, Alandeom W. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2015
This study examines student reading engagement with children's science books in elementary classrooms. "Reading engagement" in science is conceived in terms of a Transmission-Transaction continuum. When centered on transmission, science reading entails passive reception of a textually encoded scientific message. By contrast, when science…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Content Area Reading, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science