Welcome back to the Teaching Literacy Podcast! This is a fantastic interview to get us rolling again. Today I welcome Dr. Sarah K. Clark to discuss a series of studies she completed that integrated literacy and science instruction.

Disciplinary Literacy Learning Modules from the Annenberg Foundation:

References:

Clark, S. K., Judd, E., Smith, L. K., & Ahlstrom, E. (2020). Examining the Effects of Integrated Science and Literacy Instruction to Teach Second-Graders to Write Compare and Contrast Informational Text. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-020-01106-9

Clark, S. K., Lott, K., Larese-Casanova, M., Taggart, A. M., & Judd, E. (2020). Leveraging Integrated Science and Disciplinary Literacy Instruction to Teach First Graders to Write Like Scientists and to Explore Their Perceptions of Scientists. Research in Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-020-09927-9

Clark, S. K., Smith, L. K., Judd, E., & Rosdahl, V. (2021). Using Disciplinary Literacy to Teach Children to Write Science Informational Text. Reading Psychology, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/02702711.2021.1888353