Yearlong metacognitive conversation
To begin our classroom inquiries into science literacy, we talk about our thinking processes every day as we delve into lab procedures, graphs, data tables, and all the different “texts” of science. I model talking aloud about my own thinking processes and encourage students to “think aloud” about how they make sense of what they are doing. Through this metacognitive conversation, students learn that text includes labs, data, and their own work, and that reading is an active problem-solving process.