The engaging strategies in this timely book offer a fail-safe way for students to build knowledge, skills, and vocabulary in science and literacy. The passionate, award-winning authors bring a wealth of teaching experience and innovative thinking to this important topic. Based on the authors1 experience in a multi-year science-literacy professional learning community in one of Canada's largest school boards, this grab-bag of ready-to-use activities focuses on meeting key curriculum goals. This valuable resource Connects science and language arts by focusing on how students can use literacy strategies to learn key science concepts Builds on current research on learning from a cognitive science perspective Pairs 25 engaging science-literacy activities that "just work" in the classroom with strategies that can be used across the curriculum Addresses the teaching challenges of engaging students and teaching science with little science background Fail-Safe Strategies for Science and Literacy argues that effective teaching can be found where science and literacy overlap. The simple strategies in this remarkable book help teachers stream-line busy schedules by focusing on cognitive skills shared by science and language arts. This unique approach pairs thinking routines from literacy-Observe and Wonder; Predict and Infer; Sort and Categorize; Analyze and Interpret; and Conclude and Apply-with hands-on science activities. QR codes for all strategies lead to visual online support that clarifies, enriches, and ensures success. Designed to help build teacher confidence, Fail-Safe Strategies for Science and Literacy offers the background and insights teachers need to support students as they make sense of science content through language-arts study.