Reading and writing within Science education: Text structure as a bridge between content knowledge and text comprehension Science education provides a functional context for reading and writing activities. Previous interventions on language-and-science integrated approaches have generated positive effects …

Integrated science-and-literacy programs have proven to positively affect both language proficiency and science knowledge. Because making connections is important in both text comprehension and understanding the disciplinary core ideas taught in science, it seems worthwhile to explore the potential of …