Integrating Literacy and Engineering Instruction for Young Learners

According to recently published national standards, elementary students should engage in engineering design activities. This article outlines ways that teachers can use literacy instruction to support young students’ engineering design activity, such as by selecting texts in which characters face pr...

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Published in:The Reading teacher 2015-07, Vol.69 (1), p.25-33
Main Authors: Wilson-Lopez, Amy, Gregory, Stacie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Action research
Action research, teacher research
and materials
Assessment
Childhood
Children's literature
Comprehension
Content literacy
Early adolescence
Elementary education
Elementary School Students
Engineering
Engineering Education
etc.
Fiction
Informational text
Instructional strategies
Instructional strategies, teaching strategies
Interdisciplinary Approach
Learning strategies
Literacy
Literacy Education
Literature
Making inferences
methods
National Standards
Nonfiction
Predicting
Problem Solving
Questioning
Reading
Reading Comprehension
Reading Strategies
Research methodology
Rubrics
Selection criteria
Specific subject areas (math
Specific subject areas (math, art, etc.)
Strategies
Strategies, methods, and materials
Summarizing
Supplementary resources
teacher research
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching Methods
teaching strategies
text features
Text types
Text types, text features
Units of Study
Writing
Writing across the curriculum
Writing strategies
Writing to learn
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Summary:According to recently published national standards, elementary students should engage in engineering design activities. This article outlines ways that teachers can use literacy instruction to support young students’ engineering design activity, such as by selecting texts in which characters face problems that can be solved through engineering, providing students with opportunities to practice comprehension strategies while reading those texts, and modeling for them how to write a variety of texts that are relevant to engineers’ practices. The authors describe how they integrated this type of literacy instruction into engineering units in third‐ and fifth‐grade classrooms.
ISSN:0034-0561
1936-2714
DOI:10.1002/trtr.1351