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Student Success Through Mini-lessons

Each week, you will read four provided texts and construct one written response using a series of adaptable mini-lessons.

  • Science Knowledge

    Students will build background knowledge for various topics: magnets, rocks, invasive species, friction, Earth's movements in space, renewable technology, deep-sea animals, and many more high-interest topics.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Students will study authentic text features such as maps, infographics, and photos with captions while reading and comprehending grade-level science texts.

  • Writing

    Students will use information from their reading and sentence frames to construct a written explanation to support a claim.

Each week is a new opportunity to learn something new. Let's build knowledge!

“To acquire the knowledge and vocabulary that will help them understand nonfiction, children need to do more than read a single book on a topic before skipping to another one while practicing how to identify text features or determine text structure. They need to stick with a topic for days or weeks, encountering the same vocabulary and concepts repeatedly so they will stick. Knowing how to identify a caption in a book about sea mammals is unlikely to help them understand a book about the solar system or the Civil War.” - Natalie Wexler

Resources Included

    1. Getting Started with SciencELA Video

    1. Week 1: Ocean Exploration

    2. Week 2: Ocean Zones

    3. Week 3: Ocean Migration

    1. Week 1: Household Waste

    2. Week 2: Clean Water

    3. Week 3: Renewable Technology

    1. Week 1: Invasive Species

    2. Week 2: Galápagos Species

    3. Week 3: Thriving Fungi

    1. Week 1: Parts of our Solar System

    2. Week 2: Technology in Space

    3. Week 3: Earth's Movement

    1. Week 1: Water Cycle

    2. Week 2: Physical Weathering

    3. Week 3: Acid Rain

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