The authors of this book made a good point by talking about and saying that teachers should connect not only science, but all subjects related to literacy. There are four areas related to literature that should be covered: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Each of these areas should be used and as a teacher you should not ignore any of these areas of literature. The book talked about many ways to incorporate these areas into every subject. I think it is an important aspect in teaching and learning. Especially in the younger grades when students are learning the essential skills and building on those skills. It may not be feasible to incorporate these into everything you do in a lesson, but implement them as much as you can into your lessons.
Teaching students to organize and interpret data is another point that the authors talked about. This is something that can be taught at an early age. This is something that students are going to have to do for the rest of their school careers. Organizing and interpreting data is also something that students will use in the real world as well, when they are done with school. The earlier students learn to do these things, the better off they will be. They can at least start some of the easier graphing techniques. These can be implemented into the subjects that are being taught. They can start to use these as a class project, which would be done as a whole class. This would make it easier for students to see before they do the graphs on their own. Graphing can be broken down into easy steps for the easier graphs, to make it not as complicated as it looks. Bar graphs, line graphs, and histograms are the main graphing systems used in an elementary school.