This article describes an instructional model for integrating children's literature and language arts into the elementary school science curriculum. This science-literacy instructional model is an adaptation from the original 5E model of scientific inquiry. The model demonstrates how reading, writing, listening, and speaking can be incorporated into science instruction and how the use of fictional children's literature, in addition to nonfiction, can engage the learner and facilitate mastery of content and opportunities for problem solving and critical thinking.