In this article, I discuss the value of hybrid texts and present specific activities that can be used with hybrid texts in elementary science classrooms. Table 1 contains examples of hybrid texts which tie to scientific concepts. Although we know that quality informational text can be valuable in the science classroom, many teachers are left wondering what if any role hybrid texts should play in science lessons. While hybrid texts include information, the reader encounters the information through a story type narration (Maloch and Bomer 2013). Perhaps she should just leave the book in the classroom library so if students want to, they can look through it at leisure. However, some of her colleagues have been discussing that stories such as this don’t really help students learn science content. She has quite a few informational texts with headings, graphs, and charts that address different types of weather, but she really wants to incorporate The Magic School Bus: Inside a Hurricane (Cole 1996) into the unit. Taylor sits preparing her lesson on weather, she looks through texts in her classroom library that can supplement hands-on experiments her students will conduct. I try to ask a question, such as how do scientists guess what dinosaurs were like? Then I try to answer the question as I write the book,” she was quoted as saying in Scholastic’s statement.As Mrs. “In my science books, including ‘The Magic School Bus’ books, I write about ideas, rather than just the facts. As a child she loved science, and her passion continued into adulthood. “Tip your hat to a science writer who reached an enormous audience and explained the world around us with grace and humor,” tweeted science writer Matt Shipman.Ĭole’s other titles include “The Clown Arounds,” “Bony-Legs” and “Best Loved Folktales of the World.”Ĭole was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1944. “Joanna’s books, packed with equal parts humor and information, made science both easy to understand and fun for the hundreds of millions of children around the world who read her books and watched the award-winning television series.” “Joanna Cole had the perfect touch for blending science and story,” said Dick Robinson, chairman, president and CEO of Scholastic. Kate McKinnon boards Netflix's 'Magic School Bus' revival Rodriguez/Getty Images North America/Getty Images LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Kate McKinnon attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on Septemin Los Angeles, California.
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