DLI 1st grade guide

SCAFFOLDS TO SUPPORT SCIENCE LITERACY Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, and other Tools to Support Students

CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) is a scaffold for writing about science. It allows students to think about data in an organized, thorough manner. D-TAILLS is an acronym and protocol for creating a graph. LENSES is a protocol that helps students read and analyze data in a graph or data table. Connecting Visuals to Surrounding Text. Science text is full of visuals (graphics, data tables, graphs, etc.) that are essential to the understanding of text. Connecting visuals to text is an important skill when reading science text. Helping students keep track of new vocabulary in a text is critical to their understanding. The Close Reading Routine helps teachers scaffold complex text which is often encountered in science classrooms. Scaffolds for Accessing is a list of scaffolds organized from most scaffolded to least scaffolded for reading informational text. Text Compacting is a way to shorten informational text and still maintain the critical pieces of information. The text compactor allows you to shorten lengthy text quickly. This is a great support for special education and multilingual learners. The noun project offers free icons and stock photos to help teachers illustrate components from text or big ideas. Engineering a text is a great way to make the text accessible for special education and multilingual learners. There are several ways to Engineer or Amplify a text, and they can be found in the resource. Science Teacher Talk Moves to Support Classroom Discussion

CER Graphic Organizer, Rubric, and supporting sentence frames

D-TAILLS Protocol & Rubric

LENSES Protocol

Connecting Visuals to Surrounding Text Graphic Organizer

New Vocabulary Graphic Organizer

Close Reading Routine Text Complexity Text Dependent Questions

Accessing Complex Text

Text Compactor

The Noun Project

Engineering a Text

Science Teacher Talk Moves Teacher Talk Tracker