Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
The Reading Teacher
Volume
69
Issue
1
Publication Date
7-1-2015
First Page
25
Last Page
33
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Wilson-Lopez, Amy and Gregory, Stacie, "Integrating literacy and engineering instruction for young learners" (2015). Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications. Paper 2223.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/teal_facpub/2223
