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Lesson Planning Resources NGSS Hub - One of my go-to resources to find lessons and units targeting Next Gen standards! Also look for their free NGSS app for iPad, Droid, and Windows devices. cK-12.org - Use their search tools to find online resources for students or check out their FlexBook options to create your own textbook aligned to NGSS (or other state standards) and your curriculum! Concord Consortium - Be sure to check out this awesome resource! Use their online tools to help you find resources to implement NGSS by choosing your practice, core ideas, and cross-cutting concepts. Also check out their STEM Resource Finder! NGSS Storylines - A great resource to learn how to use storylines to target science standards in your classroom. Also check out the California NGSS Framework for examples of storylines for the various standards. Also check out the storyline resource from Stanford for a wealth of ideas and ready-to-use units, such as Save the Andes! OpenScienceEd - A new website with some promising resources fully aligned to NGSS and free for download by classroom teachers. There are only a few units available, but more are in the planning stages. PBS Learning Media - Use their site search to find NGSS aligned lessons, videos, and other learning tools in their amazing library of resources and ideas! Phenomena Resources Project Phenomena - Discover real-world phenomena that can be integrated into your lessons to enhance your students’ learning in the classroom. Science Snacks - Discrepant events make a great tool for focusing your students’ learning on phenomena - especially those they can see and explore for themselves. Spark - Using Phenomena to Engage Students - A great article highlighting the benefits of using phenomena along with examples of changing past classroom projects to focus on current phenomena and spark students’ interest. Check out the Sunrise Science Blog for a great article to read to help you transition to using phenomena in your learning units. Also check out these resources for more ideas: Wonder of Science - Phenomena - Find a list of topics for each standard and grade level/group! NGSS Phenomena - Provides an assortment of articles or videos that could be used as phenomena in your next unit! NSTA Phenomena Collection - Spend some time browsing their resources for phenomena. SERC Activity Ideas - Browse this list for activities that bring real-world concepts into your classroom lessons. Understanding Science - Check out their resources including a section on misconceptions - what better way to challenge your students’ learning than trying to prove their misconceptions are true or not. Data Nuggets - Check out their resources to integrate data analysis with real-world connections into your NGSS lessons. I will be trying the Tree Killing Beetles nugget during my Biodiversity unit. General Resources Next Generation Science Standards - Browse this website for the latest news and information about the new science standards. Explore the standards along with the other resources they have available. Ambitious Science Teaching - A must visit for any educator wanting to better address NGSS in their classrooms. This site provides a wealth of resources that are helpful regardless of your experience level with NGSS. Bozeman Science - A great collection of videos to help you better understand the Next Generation Science Standards. The videos are organized into three main areas: Scientific & Engineering Practices, Cross Cutting Ideas, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. eGFI (Engineering Go For It!) - You are sure to find a new project to use to challenge your students while targeting Next Gen and STEM concepts! Framework for K-12 Science Education - Read the framework to learn more about the main ideas and concepts illustrated in the new science standards. Globe Teacher’s Guide - Check out their online resources for learning about NGSS and project ideas. Lewis Center NGSS - A wealth of resources to help you implement the NGSS in your science classroom, which includes links to other online resources, videos, and assessment ideas. Be sure to scroll though the page for some good resources at the bottom! Smithsonian Q?RIUS - Check out their webcasts and resources, which are aligned with NGSS. SNAP Assessments - Need assessment ideas? Explore this excellent resource from Standford for assessment ideas targeting NGSS. Sophia for Teachers - Find tutorials and quizzes to help you implement NGSS in your classroom. Online activities are organized by topic to allow you to find what you need for your next lesson. Understanding Science - Use their search tools to find resoures aligned to NGSS - online lessons, activities, and classroom lessons. Something to read ... Making the Hippos Dance: Implementing NGSS in the Classroom Also explore the Common Core Literacy standards for Science & Technical Subjects.

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I’ve been working with science interactive notebooks for several years in the classroom and the question that I see come up over and over is, “How do you use them effectively in your class?” Let’s talk about it. What are Interactive Notebooks?
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The first year I used Interactive Science Notebooks, almost all of the content on the pages was determined by me. Instead of notebooking, my 5th graders were actually just taking notes. Interactive Science Notebooks should include student choice and reflection. One of the key features of notebooks was missing! As I learned more about how ... <a title=“3 Ways to Turn Note-Taking into Notebooking with Interactive Science Notebooks” class=“read-more” href=“https://thesciencepenguin.com/2016/09/2016-09-3waystoturnnotetakingintonotebooking-html.html” aria-label=“Read more about 3 Ways to Turn Note-Taking into Notebooking with Interactive Science Notebooks”>Read more</a>

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6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students

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Support every student by breaking learning up into chunks and providing a concrete structure for each.

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Real-world advice for how to scaffold complex text for struggling students

Editor’s Note: Author Adrienne Williams co-presented a webinar focused on scaffolding strategies. Webinar participants were allowed to ask questions via chat submission. The following questions were the most commonly asked regarding elementary ELA scaffolding. The full webinar can be downloaded here.

1. Teachers are concerned that students will become frustrated or disinterested when faced with challenging texts with which they may not initially be successful. How do you help students persevere? What strategies keep motivation high even when students struggle?

There are two key levers for getting reluctant readers to engage with text: interest and access. By providing students with a topic that is high interest, students start with some degree of buy-in. To prepare them for the complex text, consider building them up to it by giving them opportunities to build knowledge and vocabulary with lower texts before presenting them with the complex text. Be careful, however, not to limit their exposure to just lower-level text. The goal is to hook them with the topic, allow them to feel successful, and then present the challenge of the complex text with the frame that they have the tools to work through it.

Providing an access point for the complex text is another way to allow students to feel some initial success. Determine what aspects of the text they can connect to and understand. Start small! You may start out focusing on story elements and, over a series of lessons or repeated reads, get to focusing on the evolution of characters throughout the text. With repeated practice and the opportunity to feel some success by scaffolding up to the hardest task, even the most reluctant readers will learn they can tackle any text.

2. How should teachers allocate their time to different instructional strategies? How should teachers determine what percentage of their reading blocks should be allocated to each type of instruction?

When considering how to allocate time between all the different components of literacy, it’s important to keep in mind the amount of instructional time you have, specific student needs, and your role in facilitating learning. Ideally, the time you spend on each would be flexible based on what your students need. The important thing is that you provide them a balance and variety of opportunities to engage in each. That being said, I’ve found that having a set amount of time daily for foundational skills, read aloud, and centers is useful.

3. How can teachers make this doable in a whole-class setting? It can be challenging to deal with a lot of different reading levels all at the same time. Additionally, pre-teaching and scaffolding is time-consuming. How can you make it all work?

In order to use your planning and instructional time most efficiently, consider which TWO strategies you can use for any lesson to provide better access. Think of one strategy for during the reading and the other to provide access to the task you’re asking students to do. When choosing which strategies to use, think about what will benefit the most students. During reading, that could be a visual anchor chart or visual vocabulary cards. When considering the task, only make two versions: scaffolded and non-scaffolded. My scaffolded student work includes more visuals and vocabulary cues. My non-scaffolded is more text heavy. As you get better at planning for your varying ranges of students, it will be easier to make changes and offer more options of student tasks. Collaborate with your special educator or reading specialist to get a list of go-to ideas.

4. The reality is that many teachers are working with what they have: leveled readers. How can they ensure students have complex texts when they must use the readers supplied in their curriculum?

When you have to stick with what’s provided in your curriculum, which in most cases is leveled readers, you have to get creative on how to incorporate complex text.

First: Consider what instructional time you have to dedicate to complex text. Are there days when you don’t have to use the readers? Could you fit in two days a week with complex text?

Next: Identify resources from which you can pull complex texts for your students. Check the books you already have in your library; ask your colleagues. Some of the best supplemental articles and text sets I’ve found are from these three resources:

Readworks.org (free)

NewsELA (free & paid pro license)

Achieve The Core (free)

Last: Create your rationale for using complex text so that when your administration asks why you’ve done something differently, you can justify it based on research and student data.

Article: Why Complex Text Matters

5. Can you share strategies for effective read-alouds? How often should you do them?

A read-aloud is only as effective as the effort you put into planning it. Planning is the most important aspect of doing a read-aloud because it focuses your lesson, aligns your questions, and dictates your task. Once you have identified the ‘big idea’ of the lesson, or what you want students to take away, consider how you will provide them access to the text. Because you’re already reading it aloud, the next most effective strategy is to provide a visual anchor and/or focus on key vocabulary. This can be done by using various types of anchor charts, picture vocabulary cards, and using props.

Visual Anchor Example

Visual anchor example

Visual anchor example

Next, make sure that your questions are targeted and in service of your big idea. Last, determine how you will assess student understanding. Each part of the lesson needs to be strung together in service of what you want students to walk away with. In terms of how often you should do them, it depends on the unit you’re doing and the content. There is no right or wrong number. If you have the flexibility, consider doing three read-alouds a week and on the other two days give students a chance to do a close read, gain content through a hands-on experience, or incorporating writing in response to text.

About the Author: Adrienne Williams is Curriculum Manager for Center City PCS in Washington, DC. Originally from Syracuse, NY she came to DC for college - attended George Washington University for international affairs and development and came to teaching through an alternative route. Trained and certified through Urban Teachers (formerly Urban Teacher Center), she completed 6 years of teaching before transitioning to her current curriculum role. In that role she supports teachers in PreK-3rd grade in literacy and math.

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Diapers, training wheels, arm floaties. All three were a part of my childhood. The same is likely true for you and most kids growing up. They helped us navigate the world with some freedom while our bodies grew enough to manage without them. The same is true for instructional scaffolding as kids learn to read.

Scaffolding is one of those teaching buzzwords we hear a lot but seldom talk about. To put it simply: scaffolds are temporary supports we all need as our skills grow. Once our bodies and brains mature, we remove those supports and shift the focus of responsibility. It allows us to use skills we're not quite ready for as we move toward independence. The goal of scaffolding is twofold: to increase learning and to foster students' ownership.

Here are five proven instructional scaffolding techniques you can use in your classroom today.

1.Prior Knowledge

Accessing prior knowledge helps our students make connections between what they already know and what they're learning. A recent study of scaffolding strategies shows successful teachers using cognates to help their bilingual students as they came across new words. Other examples might be as simple as walking through the text together, highlighting text features, and asking students questions about what they see. The beauty of accessing prior knowledge is that it's an exercise everyone can participate in, regardless of their abilities.

2.Preteaching Vocabulary

Preteaching vocabulary is a scaffolding strategy mentioned a lot throughout educational research. Experts talk about the importance of being thoughtful when we select words. Choose words that are useful, connect with other topics you've been talking about, and bring more meaning to what you're teaching. This gives your students a better chance to understand what they're reading as they learn the content.

3.Visual Aids

As reading becomes more sophisticated, we can support thinking with diagrams, pictures, and graphs. As a scaffolding tool, visual aids are less about the destination and more about the journey. They serve as the bridge between what students think and what they may want to say or write. Visual aids are the vehicle that drives intangible thoughts to reality.

4.Modeling

Think of modeling as a supercharged show-and-tell, in that you show your students how to do something the right way. Processes, behaviors, language-you can use modeling for anything! But the key to effective modeling needs to include the telling part. It's important to show as well as explain exactly what is being done when you model for your students. Another tip is to give your students time to demonstrate in various scenarios. I guarantee you'll earn back the time you spend on this step.

5.Student Oral Expression

A final scaffolding strategy is to give students time to talk about and write about what they're learning. In separate studies, both Dr. Beth Maloch and Dr. Wendy Cumming-Potvin said we need to intentionally allow students to take more ownership of discussions during literature circles.

Normalize wait time so everyone has an opportunity to process new ideas and formulate their responses.

Give students a chance to talk about what they do and don't understand in the text.

Final Thoughts about Instructional Scaffolding

We want students to be independent readers who have ownership over their own learning. Instructional scaffolding supports student agency and, over time, helps our students learn to apply their skills with little to no teacher support. Ultimately, this is the goal: to create readers who use problem-solving strategies to better comprehend complex texts.

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Writing can be one of the most challenging things to teach. Many students struggle with writing, and many teachers find it challenging to help students overcome those hurdles. This can be frustrating, and often students are left just sitting there staring at their paper. So, when nothing is working, where do you turn? Scaffolding! When you scaffold writing, you provide the support students need to be successful. Let's talk about how to take your classroom of struggling writers and implement scaffolds that will help every student feel successful.
Ways to Scaffold and Strategies to Teach Writing
Despite writing being a common challenge for teachers, I promise that you don't have to struggle. Here are some of my favorite strategies to teach writing and help scaffold the process for students.

#1 Reading Responses and Flash Drafts
Reading responses and flash drafts can take the daunting task of writing and make it less intimidating. During a flash draft, students write down their thoughts without thinking of grammar, organization, or other writing rules. They simply write. If you ever have students say, "I don't know what to write about," this is where I'd start. Tell them to braindump an idea.

When you use reading responses and flash drafts during reading units, students can practice literacy analysis. During writing units, these flash drafts become the basis of their paper.
#2 Have a Common Text
When you start a new unit, read aloud a short story or text to get everyone on the same page...literally! Then, together as a class, write a literary analysis of that text. By writing it together, you can model the process for students and leave them with an example to refer back to.

When students write independently, they can look at this piece of writing you created as a class. This writing scaffold still requires that students write on their own, but they aren't left to fumble their way through it. You guided them through the process first.
#3 Exemplars and Mentor Texts
Another scaffold example is to have a text available to reference. This is similar to having a common text, except this time, you aren't writing together (so it's good for more advanced students or when you're lacking time).

I would pull these mentor texts in advance because it can take some time to find them. Don't underestimate the power of a good mentor text! When students see quality writing frequently, they're more likely to be able to implement those strategies themselves.

#4 Partnerships
Whenever you start a new writing or reading unit, pair students up so that everyone has at least one classmate reading the same text with them at the same time. This pair of students can help support each other during the reading or writing process.

Having a go-to person to consult before coming to the teacher builds classroom community, increases student accountability, and decreases interruptions when you're conferencing with other students. It's a win-win.
#5 Writing Conferences
When you scaffold writing, you're making support available to students as they need it. As much as you don't want students to rely on you for every part of the writing process, getting your feedback is really important. Writing conferences are an age-old strategy to teach writing, and that's because they work!

1:1 conferences give you a firsthand look at how students' skills are progressing and what areas they still need support in. Also, it can help you catch mistakes during the writing process, so students aren't learning they did something "wrong" after they finished the entire essay.

I like this scaffold example because you can also take the information you've learned from writing conferences and use it to form small groups. For example, if 3-4 students are all struggling with finding text evidence, you can form a small group and focus on that skill together. If writing conferences are overwhelming to you, here's an in-depth look at how they worked in my classroom.
#6 Work Alongside Students
Sometimes we underestimate how important the "we do" portion of our lessons is. When you work alongside your students and model writing, they are able to see the step-by-step process and what is going on inside your head.

This helps to scaffold writing because many students don't know how to "think" like a writer. They have to be taught exactly what to do, from taking the ideas to editing them for publication.

#7 Create an Intentional Unit Plan
If you're hoping you can just wing your scaffolding, think again. It's not always a natural part of teaching to scaffold, which is why I recommend building it into your units and lesson plans.

Start each unit by having students complete a reading or writing reading response with you. Model the process and create a piece of writing together. Then, you can gradually release them to take more responsibility and write with less support.

When you intentionally build writing scaffolds into your unit, you will be more successful at implementing it, and students will be more successful with their writing. For tips on how to create an intentional unit plan, check out this post.

Although it can be tough to get students to write, using various strategies to teach writing and scaffold writing makes a big difference. As students gain more knowledge and skill, switch up your instruction using the scaffold examples in this blog, so you can meet students where they are every step of the way.

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