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Sharing Books, Talking Science: Exploring Scientific Concepts with Childrens Literature
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Science is everywhere, in everything we do, see, and read. Books-all books-offer possibilities for talk about science in the illustrations and text once you know how to look for them. Childrens literature is a natural avenue to explore the seven crosscutting concepts described in the Next Generation Science Standards*, and with guidance from Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz, you will learn to develop the mindset necessary to think like a scientist, and then help your students think, talk, and read like scientists.

Sharing Books Talking Science is an engaging and user-friendly guide that provides practical, real world understandings of complex scientific concepts using childrens literature. By demonstrating how to work in a very familiar and comfortable teaching context-read aloud-to address what may be less familiar and comfortable content-scientific concepts-Valerie and Mark empower teachers to use just about any book in their classroom to help deepen students understanding of the world.

Valerie and Mark supply you with everything you need to know to get to the heart of each concept, including a primer, questions and strategies to spot a concept, and ways to prompt students to see and talk about it. Each chapter offers a list of suggested titles (many of which you probably already have) to help you get started right away, as well as topic spotlight sections that help you connect the concepts to familiar topics such as eating, seasons, bridges, size, and water. With Sharing Books Talking Science, you will have the tools and confidence to explore scientific concepts with your students. Learn how to talk science with any book so that you can infuse your curriculum with scientific thinking...even when you arent teaching science.

*Next Generation Science Standards is a registered trademark of Achieve. Neither Achieve nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.

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Heinemann

361 Hanover Street

Portsmouth, NH 038013912

www.heinemann.com

Offices and agents throughout the world

2017 by Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

Dedicated to Teachers is a trademark of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

The authors have dedicated a great deal of time and effort to writing the content of this book, and their written expression is protected by copyright law. We respectfully ask that you do not adapt, reuse, or copy anything on third-party (whether for-profit or not-for-profit) lesson-sharing websites. As always, were happy to answer any questions you may have.

Heinemann Publishers

The authors and publisher wish to thank those who have generously given permission to reprint borrowed material:

NGSS Crosscutting Concepts, pages 35: Next Generation Science Standards is a registered trademark of Achieve. Neither Achieve nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards was involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

Excerpts from Fossil in Forest Has a Song by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. Copyright 2013 by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. Published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Reprinted with permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bang-Jensen, Valerie, author. | Lubkowitz, Mark, author.

Title: Sharing books, talking science : exploring scientific concepts with childrens literature / Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz.

Description: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016044776 | ISBN 9780325087740

Subjects: LCSH: ScienceStudy and teaching (Elementary). | Literature and science.

Classification: LCC LB1585 .B26 2017 | DDC 372.35/044dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016044776

Editor: Katie Wood Ray

Production: Vicki Kasabian

Interior and cover designs: Suzanne Heiser

Cover image: books Getty Images Prestige/Holloway

Typesetter: Kim Arney

Manufacturing: Steve Bernier

e-ISBN: 978-0-325-09287-4

This ones for our kids:
Bree and Nell, and Jax and Zander.

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I marvel at folks who can take something complex and present it as if it were common sense. I stand back and study how they break it down and present it in a manner that leaves me thinking, How come I didnt think of this? That is exactly how I felt by the time I reached the end of the first chapter in this book. And on the last page I would have given Valerie and Mark a standing ovation had I been in their audience. This work is smart yet they make it so very accessible.

Perhaps it is the pairing of an education professor and a biology professor as coauthors that brings this particular focus and wisdom to the page. Clearly it works to merge the passion for literature and the passion for science into a passion for teaching. The current attention given to STEM/STEAM has many of us exploring new ways to make science more accessible, more practical, more inviting to our students, and less intimidating for ourselves. Mark and Valerie have given us a new tool to do just that. Together they provide us with a lens for noticing science everywhere, and most happily, in the pages of many of our favorite picture books. There are the expected titles with a science focus, and youll be pleased to find many of the recommended authors names printed on the spines in your nonfiction collection. But youll be surprised when they gently lead you to notice how the principles of science and the seven crosscutting concepts can be found in the plots and structures of some of your favorite fiction. It is amazing what you see when you are wearing different glasses.

Valerie and Mark show us how to notice and name pattern, cause and effect, structure and function, scale, systems and system models, energy and matter, and stability and change in a variety of genres. Along the way they help us recognize how these seven crosscutting concepts overlap and weave a broader and deeper understanding of the world. As you proceed through the book you will find yourself developing what they refer to as a scientific habit of mind. Those of us who live our lives in the readingwriting world are familiar with the idea of living a writerly life. We naturally approach a text with a reader lens or a writer lens. In this book Mark and Valerie nudge us to live a scientific life: to think like a scientist, talk like a scientist, and read like a scientist so that we question the texts we encounter and come to notice what has been there all along. They give us a new way to revisit texts for different purposes and, as with anything, this emerging awareness brings life into focus in new and interesting ways. We get a fresh look at science while we develop the schema necessary for organizing our learning and building the vocabulary that will enable us to communicate our insights, formulate our questions, and develop deeper conceptual understandings.

Read-aloud sessions have been given much more attention in recent years. We have come to recognize the power of bringing children into the flock of readers with brilliant models of literature delivered on the cadence of a well-practiced voice. We have seen the power of sharing books and visiting them again and again as we lift ideas, vocabulary, and craft to the surface for our students to notice and learn to employ on their own. I celebrate that attention to literature and to the seemingly magic power of read-aloud experiences. Now we have another powerful reason to read aloud to children across the grades and throughout the curriculum. Valerie and Mark have merged their worlds of literature and science into a practical, accessible, commonsense tool for the rest of us.

Lester Laminack

If theres one person who made this book hum, its Zander Lubkowitz, the kid who was always ready with a quotable observation, illustrations that spoke better than our words, and a knack for helping us see how kids can think like a scientist. We too want to visit Zandronia.

Teachers rock. Several were kind enough to read our chapters in progress, create lessons from the book, and were brave enough to let us see our ideas in action. We loved listening to the many astute observations in class discussions and feel honored to feature some of their students voices and pictures in these pages. Thank you: Rebecca Haslam, Barb Aiken, Callie Lumbra, Carole Carlson, Shannon Roesch, Colleen Cowell, Matt Hajdun, Betsy Patrick, and students in Valeries Making Meaning courseyou know who you are. An early meeting over a robust cup of coffee with Christian Courtemanche helped us get friendly with the crosscutting concepts. And at the other end of the project, Caroline Crawford provided grist for the title mill. We owe a special note of thanks to Elyse Gentile for nailing the comparison words shout and whisper that made the literature section sing.

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