This chapter illustrated the importance of integrating science with various other school subjects. This is due in large part to the stringent national standards. That being said, incorporating other disciplines provides students with a more comprehensive view of the world, how it works and the relationships between all subjects.
I found the text helpful in condensing the suggestions for incorporating reading and writing. I recall an entire semester about that very subject and once again, this text simplified the information and I feel I understand it more.
Many of the strategies suggested in this chapter would be useful for my students with special needs. I would need to modify the reading comprehension strategies, however. For example, a large number of my students would require direct instruction and may require very specific and more simplistic comprehension questions. I may also need to use pictorial representations of what information students should look for in a given text.
The integration of math was very important to read and provided many useful suggestions to combine the two. Children explore through classifying, counting and estimating and each subject lends themselves to the other, so it is not complicated to incorporate math into science. Math is necessary to quantify and explain relationships in scientific data.