Teachers may believe that student should engage in inquiry by exploring questions through their own activity and thinking rather than by turning to books for answers. But when combined with hands-on activities as a way to explore scientific phenomena

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Can literature be used to promote inquiry skills
in Science?

• Teachers may believe that student should engage
  in inquiry by exploring questions through their
  own activity and thinking rather than by turning
  to books for answers. But when combined with
  hands-on activities as a way to explore
  scientific phenomena rather than merely as a way
  to find the correct answers, reading can be an
  important part of the inquiry process (Hapgood
  Palinscar2007).

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What is inquiry?

• Scientific inquiry involves asking a simple
  question, conducting an investigation, recording
  and analyzing results, answering questions, and
  communicating the results to others (ncdpi).

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According to Charlene Fleener in her article
Linking Reading, Science and Fiction Books,
anticipation guides allow students to interact
with the text as well as uncover their own prior
and existing knowledge. This gives them a purpose
for reading and questioning. After reading
students investigate their thinking by revisiting
the text (Fleener, 2003).
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Taking an inquiry approach to information texts
helps students learn and be critical of the text
they are reading (Hapgood Palincsar, 2007).
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It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
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Weather Words And What They Mean by Gail Gibbons.
The final page of this section shows a rainbow
during the rain. Students then performed an
experiment with colored ice cubes.
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Students have many compelling occasions to use
writing in the context of scientific inquiry.
(Hapgood Palincsar, 2007).
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Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs
Martin www.snowflakebentley.com
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Final Thoughts

• The integration of reading and writing about
  science with inquiry activities is a particularly
  effective and efficient way to teach meaningful
  science in kindergarten as well as the early
  grades (Patrick, Mantzicopoulos Samarapungavan,
  2009). This weather unit engaged students in
  their learning. They were able to use the text we
  had read combined with the hands on activities
  they performed to develop their skills of
  scientific inquiry.