Abstract of

Students' Stories: Adolescents Constructing Multiple Literacies Through Nature Journaling

Sally McMillan

Jennifer Wilhelm

The integration of nature studies within language arts instruction offers multiple possibilities for guiding students toward close readings of literature, their changing selves, natural phenomena, and the world around them. The authors document their own rediscovery of nature study and what happened when environmental observations were incorporated into the lives of 67 seventh-grade students as an alternative mode of literacy instruction.

Abstract from McMillan, S., & Wilhelm, J. (2007, February). Students' Stories: Adolescents Constructing Multiple Literacies Through Nature Journaling. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 50(5), 370–377. doi: 10.1598/JAAL.50.5.4