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After taking this course, it is very obvious that reading/literacy should be taught in every single content area. It should be taught in math because students need to know how to interpret and process word problems, graphs, and charts to be able to set up and solve problems. It should be taught in social studies because students need to know how to interpret historical texts and analyze for bias. And students need literacy in science because “students may read texts in order to learn about specific scientific facts, laws, and principles. However, not everything written in a science text is intended to be taken as a fact or absolute” (Hall 404). As a future science teacher, I want my students to be able to understand science outside of just a textbook. This means that they will have to explore science articles and journals, which are not easy to read and understand. Interpreting science texts involves paraphrasing and summarizing .        ...

Science Perspective on “Teachers and content area reading: Attitudes, beliefs and change”             This journal presents information as to why reading should be taught in content area classes, current attitudes of in-service and pre-service teachers, what is currently being done to form attitudes on teaching reading, and finally what can be done to improve attitudes on teaching reading. To examine the beliefs that pre-service and in-service teachers hold, the author established three guiding questions and searched the ERIC database and found 19 peer-reviewed journals from the last 33 years (1970-2003) that fit the criteria. The author then created a database from the information found in the journals and began to identify patterns to determine if there were specific beliefs held only by pre-service or in-service teachers. The author also identified the methods that the researchers used to address the issue of teaching r...