Teaching Comprehension in the Digital Age

Across the entire unit, the interactive instructional routine with videos in conjunction with print-based texts used by a veteran teacher allowed children to practice oral and written modes of describing patterns observed in the natural world and communicating about how individuals of the same kind...

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Published in:Science and children 2021-05, Vol.58 (5), p.43-50
Main Authors: Buchholz, Beth, Pyles, Damiana, Hash, Peaches, Hagaman, Kris
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birds
Children
Children & youth
Childrens picture books
Classrooms
Communication
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Kindergarten
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Literacy
Ornithology
Reading comprehension
Science
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Summary:Across the entire unit, the interactive instructional routine with videos in conjunction with print-based texts used by a veteran teacher allowed children to practice oral and written modes of describing patterns observed in the natural world and communicating about how individuals of the same kind of animal can vary in many ways. More specifically, his three strategic instructional practices for pausing the video provided a way to scaffold the students' learning as readers and scientists. Pausing and inviting interaction helps young children learn to make sense of complex ideas and patterns in the natural world as they practice ways of acting, talking, and thinking like scientists. Advances in technology have made video a particularly critical tool/text in obtaining, evaluating, and communicating knowledge across scientific disciplines. Scientists regularly rely on video to collect and analyze data as well as a tool to share their findings with other scientists and the public. Consequently, literacy instruction in science classrooms must prepare students to understand these expansive, multimodal forms of texts.
ISSN:0036-8148
1943-4812
DOI:10.1080/19434812.2021.12291674