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This website,  www.readinga-z.com , has over 600 👀 hundred science books that can be used for grades anywhere from kindergarten to 6 th grade 💪. Science teachers should check out this resource if they want a way to see science books at many different levels organized by content matter. The books listed in this website are accessible through a membership 💰, but you can try the service for free for two weeks to test it out. I would subscribe to this website if I were looking for a way to include a bunch of reading in my science class because there are so many options and such a wide range of reading levels that most kids in a 4 th to 6 th grade classroom would be accommodated for 💯.  This website is also useful for math and social studies because there are over 150 math books and over 900 social studies content focused books 🙌. This website is an easy way for your students to learn about the curriculum while also improving upon their reading comprehensions skill...

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This chapter does a good job in showing that we shouldn’t be teaching to the textbook, we should be teaching for our students to learn. One of the questions posed is “Does this topic, idea, or process represent a big idea with enduring value beyond the classroom?” I think almost any content can meet this criterion if we are striving to teach and engage rather than check a box on the standards list. The standards and the textbook concepts are just the bare minimum of what we need to teach. Since we are evaluated on how well our students perform of big standardized tests, many teachers focus on teaching what is on the test. This is fine, but if we really try to get students to think more intellectually and beyond just facts and ideas, they will ultimately be able to think critically better and understand material and idea way beyond the final exam.  Overall, I don’t really like using the textbook, but it is a good resource to get some simple vocabulary and concepts down. I can s...

This video is a great resource for science teachers who are trying to get their students to become independent learners when they read text with information they are unfamiliar with. This video demonstrates implementing the gradual release of responsibility chart found on the resource website here . This chart starts with a think aloud where the teacher demonstrates to the class how to summarize passages. Then the students get a chance to practice as they work on the skill with a partner. And finally, students get the chance to be independent learners and paraphrase the passages on their own. The featured teacher in the video summarizes why literacy belongs in science class by saying, “In order for students to understand the science, they have to be able to gather that information through reading, and to share that information through writing.” Understanding text is critical to science, but it is also useful in other content areas. Having students who are able to summarize wha...