English language arts, often to the exclusion of other subjects, such as science and social
studies (Crocco & Costigan, 2007). This, coupled with many elementary school teachers
seeing themselves as more “literacy people” rather than “science people,” encouraged us to
conceive of a project Integrated Science Literacy Enactments (ISLE) that aimed to develop,
enact, and study integrated scienceliteracy teaching and learning in urban elementary …