8th Grade Science Guide

THE BIG LIST OF SCIENCE LITERACY SCAFFOLDS Planning WISR Science Instruction

Speaking/ Listening Scaffolds

Reading/ Viewing Scaffolds

Writing Scaffolds

Assessment

● CER Graphic Organizer

● Science Teacher TalkMoves ● Talk Science Teacher Cards ● Constructive Conversation Resource Cards ● Classroom Talk Prewrite, Notes and Post-write Graphic Organizer. Communication ● Give One, Get One ● Share-Trade / Rumors ● Discourse Primer ● Lines of

● Common Science Greek & Latin Roots ● Connecting Visuals to Surrounding Text ● New Vocabulary Graphic Organizer ● Close Reading Routine ● Text Complexity ● Text Dependent Questions ● Accessing Complex Text ● Text Compactor ● The Noun Project ● Engineering a Text ● Response Cards ● Common Science Greek & Latin Roots ● Connecting Visuals to Surrounding Text ● New Vocabulary Graphic Organizer ● Close Reading Routine ● Text Complexity ● Text Dependent Questions ● Accessing Reading/ Viewing Scaffolds

● CER Graphic Organizer ● Integrating Science Practices into Assessment

● Sentence Stems ● Science Sentence Stems ● Paragraph Frames

General Scaffolds & Supports

● WISR Lesson Planning Template

Speaking/ Listening Scaffolds

Scaffolds to Support Science SEPs

Writing Scaffolds

Assessment

● Asking Questions Graphic Organizer ● Driving Question Board Models Graphic Organizer ● Modeling Toolkit ● Elements of a GoodModel ● Developing

● Give One, Get One ● Share-Trade / Rumors

● Rubric Samples

Asking Questions

● Three Stay, One Stray ● Four Quadrants / Voting Chips

● Rubric Samples

Developing & Using Models

● Planning

● Read - Generate - Sort - Solve

● Rubric Samples

Planning& Carrying Out

Investigations