"Todd - Once place to look for excellent reading materials would be the National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) Outstanding Science Tradebooks for Students K-12 Program. Each year NSTA chooses an extensive list -…"
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Todd Anderson replied to Jessica Crooker's discussion Engaging Students in Textbook Reading in the group Literacy in the Content Areas"Are you familiar with Silver and Strong's Thoughtful Ed. Strategies? I love to use Reading for Meaning, New American Notebook, and Vocabulary Notebook from them."
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With the new common core literacy standards the science teachers in my district are trying to gather good reading materials from reputable sources. We are also working on making sure to hit all of th ACT College Readiness Standards. Finding articles with quality data in the form of flowcharts, tables etc. is proving to be difficult
Todd Anderson joined Jessica Fries-Gaither's groupLiteracy in the Content Areas
Do your students struggle with comprehension or vocabulary development? Looking for ways to integrate literacy in your instruction? This group will explore issues related to literacy in middle school science and mathematics.
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- Which best describes your position?
- Curriculum Coordinator
- What discipline(s) do you teach?
- Science, English/Language Arts
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- Assessment/Testing, Instructional strategies, Integrating technology, Managing labs (including safety), Literacy, Involving parents/caregivers
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- Content knowledge, Being a new teacher, Standards
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- At 3:29pm on April 4, 2011, Kim Lightle said…
- Todd - I was going to see what I could find about your question about college readiness but I need a little more information. What did you want the flowcharts to contain - data about what? Thanks - Kim
- At 1:27am on March 17, 2011,
Davilla Riddle said… Hi,
If you are interested, there are several places where you can immediately take something away or contribute to this site. First, visit our Make the Most of MSP2 page. Second, check out the group Collaboration. MSP2 wants to create opportunities for teachers to collaborate locally or globally and form PLCs around science and mathematics. This group provides educators with a forum to create student collaboration projects around STEM concepts. There is a link to our Cool Tools wiki under MSP2 Resources on the main page, too.
Is there anything I can help you with right now?
There are several great upcoming events scheduled, too!
Aloha!
Davilla, MSP2 Teacher Leader
- At 3:57pm on March 9, 2011, Kim Lightle said…
- I forgot to tell you that I have another project that you might be interested in checking out - Beyond Penguins - http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org. We integrated science and literacy with a focus on K-5 but lots of middle school teachers are using the resources.
- At 3:55pm on March 9, 2011, Kim Lightle said…
Hi Todd - Welcome aboard!You've already started a discussion - that is wonderful.
I wanted to tell you a little about MSP2 - we are using this NING network as a place where educators can connect with each other (through answers to profile questions and the advanced Members search) and also as a way to connect educators with exemplary resources and professional development opportunities.
If you look on the Main page - you'll see MSP2 resources in the upper left hand box - we have resource guides where we have sifted and sorted and contextualized resources on topics important to middle school math and science teachers, an archive of all of our past webinars, the ability to search the MSP2 collection, and pages of teacher and student opportunities and grants. Our newest resource guides are Teaching With Trade Books which includes lessons for science AND math classes and Science Misconceptions.
Please don't hesitate to post a question or comment on a discussion or blog post. We are always looking for feedback and new ideas for PD opportunities and people who would like to present.
So glad you joined - KimPS - I take it you are a San Francisco fan - I'm actually out here for a meeting. I live in Columbus, OH - much closer to you!
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