Seeds of Science, Roots of Reading
Teaching is a challenging profession. Teachers wear many hats as they try to not only help their students learn the content, but also work with them to develop all the other skills they’ll need to be successful in the future. In this section, we’ll share some of our top tips for teachers to help them offer the best possible instruction for their students, while also juggling all of the other demands of the job including managing a classroom, forming connections with students, collaborating with colleagues, and communicating with parents.
Holding a reading fair is an excellent way to improve students’ engagement and excitement about reading and demonstrating their learning from a text. Students participating in a reading fair create a project, referred to as a reading fair board, to share the book they read and some of their key takeaways with others. During my … Read more
If you’ve ever had to wade your way through a list of classroom standards, trying to figure our how the heck you’re going to work all of those requirements into your curriculum, you know that it can be a daunting task! To make matters worse, you know that at any time, your lesson plans could … Read more
Online teaching jobs are definitely booming. There are quite a few platforms where teachers can connect with students from China and other parts of the world to teach English or other skills. While you may think that you won’t be qualified to teach on many of these sites without a teaching degree, that isn’t necessarily … Read more
NSTA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015 March 11-14, 2015. Chicago, IL. Presentations Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading® Integrating Science and Literacy Amplify Sceince®: Technology enhanced, research-driven science program for Grades 6-8 Unpacking the Next Generation Science Standards: Guiding students to become evidence-based thinkers, speakers, readers, and writers Integrating Argumentation in support of Science and Literacy Development Science Seminars: … Read more
Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading activities are specifically designed to be accessible to English language learners. In addition, each session includes an optional accommodation teachers can use to provide further support to English language learners without diluting the content for these students. Research results show that Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading helps English language learners make large gains … Read more
The Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading units are based on three guiding principles: 1. Engage students in firsthand and secondhand investigations to make sense of the natural world. Firsthand investigations involve students in making observations, conducting tests and experiments, modeling scientific phenomena, gathering data, and searching for evidence. Secondhand investigations involve students in making sense of investigations … Read more
Strategy Guides highlight some of the most powerful instructional strategies from the Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading integrated curriculum. Each Strategy Guide provides a description of one of these strategies, an overview of how to teach the strategy with many science texts, and a specific plan for teaching the strategy with a Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading book. … Read more
Whether you’re a veteran teacher, finishing up your student teaching and ready to graduate, or just starting to look into the teaching profession, you may be trying to decide whether online learning and teaching or classroom learning and teaching is right for you. Choosing between the two teaching options can be quite challenging. Until just … Read more